9m read · Hugh Everett blew up quantum mechanics with his Many-Worlds theory in the 1950s. Physics is only just catching up

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3m read · Since the 1970s, physicists have described black holes using borrowed versions of the laws of thermodynamics. But are black holes really thermodynamic systems? Craig Callender worries that the analogy…

3m read · Space elevators would dramatically reduce the cost of reaching space but have never been technologically feasible. Until now.