Avid readers of Physics World will know that we have for many years published a monthly column called “Critical Point” written by Robert P Crease, a historian and philosopher of science from Stony ...

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Elias Zafiris holds an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College, University of London, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Imperial College. He is ...

Physicists typically think they “need philosophers and historians of science like birds need ornithologists,” the Nobel laureate David Gross told a roomful of philosophers, historians, and physicists ...

The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. To ...

Canonical works in the philosophy of physics tend to begin with the Greeks. This practice stems from the philosopher’s need to flag the intellectual tradition from which current physics and its ...

The Nobel-Prizewinning physicist and sometime bongo-player Richard Feynman famously said: Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. I have actually always ...

Peter Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Foundational Questions Institute. The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled ...