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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

Physics

How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

If we can’t measure something, we can’t know its true nature. This fundamental limitation hampers our understanding of the quantum world – but it doesn't preclude scientific thinking

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Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?

Humans

Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?

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Philip Pullman

Humans

Philip Pullman: 'A story will help us make sense of anything'

Culture

Ted Danson and Kirsten Bell as Michael and Eleanor from The Good Place

Humans

The Good Place review: It is over, but I’m never going to say goodbye

Culture

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

Mind

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

Culture

Scientific truth

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Scientific truth

Karl Popper

People in Science

Karl Popper

angel statue

Humans

How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative

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logic

Humans

How to think about... Logic

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truth

Humans

How to think about... Scientific truth

All swans are white. Or are they? It’s difficult to establish absolute truths about the world, and science is the worst method – apart from all the others

Features

Humans

Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice

News

Humans

Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress

Culture

Humans

Science isn't everything – and it's not even after the truth

Culture

Humans

We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world

Culture