Category: Physics

In 1985, David Deutsch had a radical insight that went beyond both quantum mechanics and computer science. He saw that the laws of physics themselves point to a new kind of computer – one that could simulate any physical system perfectly. This might sound abstract, but it changed how we think about both computing and…

Before Einstein, everyone thought space and time were like the stage in a theater – a fixed backdrop where things happened. Space was space, time was time, and that was that. But at age 26, working as a patent clerk, Einstein saw something nobody had seen before: space and time are really the same thing,…

When most people look at the world, they see separate things: tables, trees, stars, atoms, thoughts. David Bohm saw something different. He saw one seamless whole, flowing like a vast river with endless currents and eddies. This wasn’t just philosophy. As a quantum physicist in the 1950s, Bohm confronted a puzzling reality: particles that seemed…