In it, he proposed a technology, called the tachyonic anti-telephone, that could send faster-than-light messages into the ...

Do we live in a simulation? This is one of those questions which has kept at least part of humanity awake at night, and which has led to a number of successful books and movies being made on the ...

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...

Thought experiments are a way to craft free experiences in our mind, designed to answer a question or validate a hypothesis we have about human nature without imposing any demands on us for physical ...

Thought experiments are philosophy’s laboratory. Unlike scientists who can manipulate physical materials, philosophers use imagination to test ideas, expose hidden assumptions, and reveal ...

Conservation laws are central to our understanding of the universe, and now scientists have expanded our understanding of these laws in quantum mechanics. A conservation law in physics describes the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jodie Cook covers AI and founder-led growth for business owners. This article is more than 4 years old. When thinking about how to ...

OpenAI and Anthropic's July AI agent breaches revive Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment and instrumental convergence theory.

Author and social worker Ken Breniman introduces the "Empathic Commoner" thought experiment, encouraging Americans to ...

Antoine Naert has reconstructed a prop straight out of the Industrial Revolution. But don’t expect steam-powered engines or decorative brass gears. Naert, a physicist at ENS Lyon in France, and his ...