Category: Science
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Which One Is Real: Awake or Sleep
Reality or simulation? Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream questions our understanding. Uncover the fascinating connection between dreams, physics, and the nature of existence.
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Century of Stagnation and Decline
This whole thought started with Peter Thiel’s idea of stagnation that real progress has slowed down. Thiel argues that AI is the only truly transformative invention of the 21st century. I don’t agree. And here’s why. When I look back…
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The Boy Who Brought Balance to Numbers
Once upon a time, about 1,200 years ago, in a land called Persia, a curious boy named Muhammad al-Khwarizmi was born. Muhammad loved questions. He loved learning. Most of all, he loved books. As he grew older, his love for…
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Why 18 years old is a milestone? A brain story.
I want my 9-year-old to understand why we say “parents know more”. She often resists and says “I know more” so I have to remind her that the legal age to make independent life decisions is 18 for a reason.…
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Maryam Mirzakhani: Finding Patterns in Chaos
Maryam Mirzakhani was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. She was the first woman ever to win the Fields Medal, which is the highest award in mathematics. When she was still a teenager, she also won two gold medals…
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A lesson for my daughter – How to learn like a scientist
In one of our science nights, I will give you this lesson: let’s talk about two cool ways scientists understand the world around them. The first is called “empiricism”. Imagine when you were little and learned about fruit by tasting…
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Mary’s Room Experiment and the Nature of Experience
Today I was thinking about the famous Mary’s Room thought experiment after listening to Alex O’Connor’s podcast, where he challenged a physicist to claim that philosophy is a real science. To illustrate his point, he referred to Mary’s Room thought…
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Amusement Park Creation — A Thought Experiment
Let’s revisit the amusement park metaphor from my earlier post, “God Does Play Dice.” Previously, from the Creator’s View: Imagine you’re God, building a park. You design an amusement park. The buildings, roller coasters, walkway require precision, planning, and full…
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Time is Not What You Think!
I was watching a lecture by Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli, who wrote the amazing book “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics”. He explained why the time we experience in day to day life works fine but it breaks…
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Does God play dice with the universe?
Exactly 100 years ago, in 1925, there was a legendary scientific argument between two of the most brilliant physicists of all time, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Bohr had already received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his…
