What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time challenges the popular view that the past, present, and future all exist together ...

In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler described the relationship between space and matter in two sentences: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move. In turn, matter reacts back on space, telling it ...

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire ...

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Consequence is heading where no publication has gone before… the final frontier. Today, we’re presenting our ranking of the 30 best space albums of all time, from heavy intergalactic concept albums to ...

Her Tibetan Buddhist spiritual practice and her experiments with synthesizers came together in vast, slow-moving works that drew wide acclaim. By Peter Catapano Éliane Radigue, a French composer whose ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space and time has remained fundamentally disconnected. Relativity unifies space ...

The perennial debate about the possible directionality of evolution, as indicated by the apparent increase in the complexity of living systems over time, has recently witnessed renewed arguments in ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

Researchers at Rice University and Waseda University have advanced the field of computational fluid dynamics with new methods that significantly increase accuracy in solving complex real-world ...