The Quantum Brain
A physicist won a major prize, then spent five years asking whether his own antidepressants were quantum mechanical. The evidence goes on trial today.
Physics Gene
I write about the real intuition behind physics concepts, explained the way a curious person actually wants to understand them. One deep-dive a week that changes how you see the universe
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YOU Are a Bioelectric Quantum Computer
Your cells run electric fields stronger than the one that triggers lightning. And that’s the boring half of this story.
How Do We Know That We Know?
You Can’t Prove the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow
Your Brain Has Never Shown You Reality
What is even real?
Your Eye Slows Light Down
Two rival formulas for the momentum of a photon inside glass, water, and the vitreous of your own eye. They differ by a factor of nearly two. Both of them are correct.
Sunlight Weighs Nothing and Pushes You Anyway
Every photon lands with a measurable shove. There are spacecraft that sail on nothing but this.
A Measurement in the Quantum World
I want to shift away from explaining what a measurement collapsing the wave function means to what the measurement even mean
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
The most misunderstood law in physics
The Universe Should Be Empty
In the spring of 1964, on opposite sides of New York City, two teams of physicists were being annoyed by their equipment.
Hospitals Use Antimatter Every Day
In 1928, an equation predicted a mirror image of all matter. Today we inject it into patients before breakfast and photograph tumors by the light of its annihilation.
Something Is Outrunning Light
It happens millions of times a second inside nuclear reactor pools. The blue glow is what losing the race looks like.