The fate of the universe rests in your hands, hero. We see it all the time — cosmic battles of good and evil being played out on screen or in video games. But this is science fiction — surely, without superpowers, that hero could never be you… or could it?

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German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel calls it a “miracle of technology.” The device, an IBM Q System One, was recently unveiled as the most powerful quantum computer in Europe. …

Wheeler called it the Participatory Anthropic Principle. It goes something like this. The answers we get from posing questions to Nature depend very much on the questions we ask. Without any questions, nothing would be answered — hence we are participants in the bringing about of events. …

Quantum physics is weird. That’s what you’re supposed to think, anyway. But, also, it’s over one hundred years old and is the most accurate scientific theory ever created. Moreover, it provides the basis for all modern technology. Surely, then, someone understands what’s going on, right? …right?

I’ll let you decide…

In 1950, Bertie the Brain delighted crowds at the Canadian National Exhibition. It was the first known computer game with a visual display. It was a customed-made electronic version of Tic-tac-toe.

Rarely does a single word invoke such emotion in me. This has been something that has been bothering me for a long time. I complain about it endlessly to anyone that will listen. But I never had a word that succinctly describes the problem.

Now, I do.

Blankface.

I’m due…

Where Did the Universe Come From? and Other Cosmic Questions is a book I wrote with my academic colleague and friend Geraint Lewis. Geraint is a gifted scientific communicator and, if you aren’t already from Wales, you’ll love his Welsh accent. Geraint is also an astrophysicist, whereas I am a…

There are infinite versions of you living out every potentiality in a vast multiverse of parallel worlds

Or, so says the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics. The modern idea of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics has been in the news recently, mostly due to a new popular book on…