Amanda Gefter

Contributing Writer

Latest Articles

‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality

July 30, 2024

Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe.

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How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility

April 29, 2021

Chiara Marletto is trying to build a master theory — a set of ideas so fundamental that all other theories would spring from it. Her first step: Invoke the impossible.

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How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

June 27, 2019

Lee Smolin’s radical idea to reimagine how we view the universe.

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The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality

April 21, 2016

The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman believes that evolution and quantum mechanics conspire to make objective reality an illusion.

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A Private View of Quantum Reality

June 4, 2015

Quantum theorist Christopher Fuchs explains how to solve the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. His price: physics gets personal.

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