When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept ...

There may well be simpler, more powerful and more testable explanations for the basic properties of the universe than those ...

If true, this theory could explain how all of the matter in our universe was created.

In new research, a physicist describes a “shell singularity,” where gravity applies without mass. Today’s theories for dark ...

He is noted for his role in several key developments in theoretical physics, including the Belinski–Khalatnikov–Lifshitz conjecture on the behavior of generic solutions of Einstein equations near a ...

With Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose, he showed that if there was a Big Bang, it must have started from an infinitely small point - in physicist-speak, a “singularity”. At the time ...

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The Empathy Singularity: An Emotional Evolution Building on the idea that emotional intelligence could become humanity’s defining edge, I propose a speculative concept: The Empathy Singularity.

developed a quantum theory of consciousness with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff and won the Nobel prize in physics for his prediction of regions where the gravitational field would be so ...

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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The Singularity South Africa Summit last month might have helped us solve that eternal conundrum. What could be more creative than that discovery?