Beyond Our Universe: Are All Possible Worlds Just as Real? Our everyday experience paints a picture of a single, concrete reality – the universe we inhabit, filled with its particular set of laws, events, and entities. We often consider other possibilities as mere imaginings, counterfactual scenarios, or potential states of affairs that could have been … Read more
Questioning the Cosmic Clock: Is Time’s Passage a Universal Constant? For most of human history, the passage of time felt like an immutable constant, a steady, unwavering river flowing from the past to the future. Isaac Newton formalized this intuition with his concept of absolute, universal time – a single, objective timeline ticking uniformly throughout … Read more
Reframing Reality: What If Information Is the True Foundation? For centuries, our understanding of the universe has been rooted in the idea of fundamental substances – matter, energy, the very fabric of spacetime. We’ve sought the smallest building blocks of reality in particles and fields, viewing information as something that describes these physical entities and … Read more
Challenging Our Deepest Intuition: What If Cause Doesn’t Always Come Before Effect? For as long as we’ve been able to string thoughts together, one principle has seemed utterly self-evident: causes come before effects. It’s woven into the very fabric of our understanding of the world. We flick a switch (cause), and the light turns on … Read more