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Higgs and Heidegger: Much Ado about…well, Everything

By On July 29, 2012 · 2 Comments

Why is there something rather than nothing?

A question asked perhaps most famously by Martin Heidegger – but posed earlier by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, and, in some interpretations, implied by Thomas Aquinas when he contemplated Aristotle’s concept of a Prime Mover.

We’ll gloss over their different takes on the question and its answer, except to […]

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Back to the Future Redux

By On March 16, 2011 · 4 Comments

We’re obsessed with time. We spend, waste, count, measure, invest, lose, and take it. We think and write about time to no end.

And then there’s time travel.

Long the realm of science fiction and theoretical physics, we may be closing in a a way to determine if it’s actually possible. Enter Vanderbilt University theoretical […]

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