"Doing physics is like talking with the universe. Doing mathematics is like talking with the one who designed the universe." Let us think...

Update: I interviewed John Horgan about his views on the end of science (and other interesting questions). Read the full interview here . I received an email from one of my readers yesterday. Her question was a simple one, but a very important one as well. In many portions in the updated (and original) edition of my book, I have claimed that our journey of discovering the fundamental laws of Nature is not over, it has only just started. However, there are some people like Joh

There are, as Lee Smolin writes in his book The Trouble With Physics , five major problems in theoretical physics. First, the unification of the four forces and second, the reconciliation of general relativity and quantum mechanics. These two problems are perhaps interdependent: to solve one we need to solve the other. Next, the third problem is about the Standard Model. Although most of us believe it to be the most successful theory there is, it has a lot of constants with v

The edge of a coastline, population growth, weather forecasting and many more. What links and explains so many phenomena is an entirely new science (although technically, chaos theory is a branch of mathematics) – the science of order within disorder, the science of chaos. And although chaos theory is the science of unpredictability, the rules of complexity are universal, and apply to all dynamical systems, regardless of their constituents. In short, chaos theory is the study