Latest Posts | By Benjamin Winterhalter
4 years ago
“Tenet” Isn’t Paradoxical—It’s Christopher Nolan on Climate Change
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In Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie Interstellar, Anne Hathaway, starring as Brand, a member of a team of scientist-astronauts sent through a wormhole in search of an Earth-like planet in the …
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5 years ago
The World as Will and Quantum Mechanics
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Debates
There is, unfortunately, no such thing as fate. If we accept that quantum mechanics—for all the strangeness associated with it—gives an accurate description of the universe’s basic ontology, we should …
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It’s Perfectly Possible to Live in a Post-Truth Era
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On May 1, 1960, the CIA pilot Captain Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 spy plane over the USSR, taking photographs of Soviet military installations, including sites capable of launching …
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