Constructor Theory is the ability to see the deepest underlying facts about the world. The people behind the greatest leaps in physics - Einstein, Newton, Heisenberg, all had the uncanny ability to ...

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

They say that in art, constraints lead to creativity. The same seems to be true of the universe. By placing limits on nature, the laws of physics squeeze out reality’s most fantastical creations.

Alternative reality If a lifeboat is never used, because the ship it is on never sinks, is it still a lifeboat? (Courtesy: iStock/Tramino) If a 1 kg mass is dropped from a height of 100 m, what is its ...

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(via PBS Space Time) The people behind the greatest leaps in physics - Einstein, Newton, Heisenberg, all had the uncanny ability to see the fundamentals - see the deepest, underlying facts about the ...