How many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt?

How many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt? Asks Professor Milan M. Ćirković [pictured] of the Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia, in the Serbian Astronomical Journal, Vol. 166, page 55-59. His paper considers the possibilities of other universes where a soft ice cream, left to its own devices, might be generally more likely […]

A blueprint for (almost) everything

Physicists, philosophers and artists who have been struggling to understand the intricacies, enigmas and counterintuitivenesses of the structure of the universe now have a new resource which might help them – a ‘Useable Electromagnetic Blueprint of the Structure of Space’. For which a company called Hyperspace Pty Ltd (headed by inventor Christopher Heyring of Eagle […]

An expanding universe of argument

Astronomer (and AIR editorial board member) Robert Kirshner wrote a reply  to Robert P. Crease’s January 5, 2010 Physics World essay “Priority Battles” [to read “Priority Battles”, go to the Physics World site and register — their registration is free]: CREASE’s opening words: “As a philosopher of science, I love priority disputes. They invite one […]