Research Index

What chemistry, geology and genomics currently tell us about how non-living matter became the first living cells.

How an inert treatment can change pain, symptoms and brain chemistry, why it works, and where its power ends.

What meditation trains, how it seems to work in the brain, and how strong the evidence really is.

A scenario analysis of whether global agriculture could feed everyone without animals, and what it would mean for land, soil and ecosystems.

How ancient number symbolism, built to describe cosmic order and interpret sacred texts, became modern personality numerology.

How the prisoner's dilemma, Axelrod's tournaments, and later models explain when cooperation beats selfishness, and when it does not.

The Jungian "eternal youth" archetype, what it describes, what empirical psychology can and cannot say about it, and where such people thrive or struggle.

How Siddhartha Gautama tested both luxury and severe self-denial, and what his diagnosis of suffering became.

What the Dao, wu wei and naturalness mean, and why Daoist texts separate caring for something from clinging to it.

Why explaining unknowns by appeal to God keeps losing ground, and why many theologians reject the move themselves.

What Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is about, why he wrote it, and why rival governments have banned or challenged it as propaganda for the other side.

Four equations that joined electricity, magnetism and light, and set physics on the road to relativity.

Why moving clocks and clocks deeper in gravity tick slower, and how the twin paradox resolves.

How an invisible field filling all of space gives mass to fundamental particles, and how it was found in 2012.

How one extra, curled-up dimension turns Einstein's gravity into gravity plus electromagnetism, and why we have not seen it.

Where the number 13 comes from in theoretical physics, why a universe with two time dimensions is mathematically possible, and why none of it is confirmed.

Hypothetical particles that always move faster than light, why they would carry messages into the past, and why modern physics reads them as a sign of instability instead.

How Einstein's equations permit paths through spacetime that return to their own past, and why no one has ever found one.

Why a journey into the past might never change it, and why that need not require any force preventing change.

Causal loops in which an object or idea exists only because it was carried into its own past, and whether physics can tolerate them.

The view, motivated by relativity, that past, present and future all exist and time does not flow.

Whether the present fixes the entire future, what physics says about it, and why free will may survive either way.

The idea that our universe began not from nothing but from the collapse of a previous one, and what physics can and cannot say about it.

Why one number, the golden ratio, keeps turning up in sunflowers, and why many famous claims about it are myths.

How the SHA-256 hash function works, why it cannot be run backwards, and what reversing it would actually require.

How a quantum computer can search N possibilities in about √N steps, and why that is both remarkable and far less than popular accounts claim.