Schrödinger's Cat is a famous thought experiment devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It is often misunderstood as a scientific theory stating a cat can be "zombie-like" (alive …
“Apple in a Box” Theory
The "Apple in a Box" theory is a popular thought experiment that illustrates the concept of infinity and Poincaré recurrence. It gained recent popularity from the Netflix documentary A Trip to …
Wave–particle Duality
Wave-particle duality: things can behave as both waves and particles depending upon how we see them. When we don't look at a photon, it behaves like a wave and exists all over the space, but the …
Categorical thinking by Robert Sapolsky
Categorical thinking, as defined by Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky, is the human brain's natural and automatic instinct to impose rigid, artificial boundaries and "explanatory buckets" onto a …
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Religion and Science – Swami Vivekananda
Experience is the only source of knowledge. In the world, religion is the only science where there is no surety, because it is not taught as a science of experience. This should not be. There is …
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