Cosmology Archives

Cosmology

The Silicon Mystique

by Walter Kirn,

If I’m having trouble sleeping and feel like spinning my wheels in the dark, I like to meditate on the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we’re living inside a kind of…

Our Truly Dreadful Situation

by Fred Hoyle,

Why is the Universe as it is and not something else? Why is the Universe here at all? It is true that at present we have no clue to the…

What Came Before the Big Bang?

by Alan Lightman,

The physics and metaphysics of the creation of the universe

Everything That Rises

by John Crowley,

I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…