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This is a space where I share my thoughts on numerous topics, press articles and interviews, and delve into some of the more complicated and frequently asked scientific questions.

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The Life Scientific interview on BBC Radio 4

I discuss why the Universe is a big quantum computer and why information is the basis for an ultimate theory of everything in this interview with Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC Radio 4 program, The Life Scientific.

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Good for Nothing Fundamental Physics

I am not religious myself, however, I do enjoy reading various religious texts. My absolute favourite is Tao Te Ching, one of the key foundational books in Taoism.

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Quantum Analogies

When we communicate some profound ideas in physics, we frequently try to use every-day analogies in order to make counterintuitive concepts more familiar. Nowhere is this more present than in quantum physics, which arose from the world of tiny objects of which we have no first-hand experience.

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Logic is defined so that motion looks simple

I’ve always been intrigued by Einstein’s thoughts on physics and geometry. In one of his essays on this topic he says that reality is defined by geometry plus the laws of physics taken together.

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The “Everything is a Q-Wave” Interpretation of Quantum Physics

When we teach quantum physics we still use some old terminology that can actually be very confusing (and may also lead the uninitiated to believe that certain basic things are still not understood!).

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Imaginary time, Twin Paradox and Bell’s Inequalities

The interesting thing about imaginary numbers, like the square root of -1, is that it took two major revolutions in physics to actually make them real.

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