Called “the most important discovery of the century,” there’s still reason to doubt the Higgs boson — In his book The Particle at the End of the Universe, author and physicist Sean Carroll wrote: “Does anyone really believe that God plays favorites with the particles?” He was referring to the ridiculous nickname for the Higgs boson — “The God Particle” — but there’s a certain irony in…

After reversing course on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the Wuhan lab-leak theory, the mainstream media has lost all credibility — In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post published a bombshell report, a cache of emails and documents supposedly gathered from a laptop that Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, left in a Delaware computer repair shop. Amongst the cache, there were emails which revealed…

Depending who you ask, Non-Fungible Tokens are this generation’s tulip mania or they are Web 3.0 — the future of art ownership and the internet at large. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. — THE VIRTUAL REALITY FUTURE: While I might try to run from them, or at least denigrate them, digital assets are becoming more and more relevant. Our lives are increasingly lived online, and where once a sports car and a Rolex were the best ways to tout your money or status, it may soon be…

The 2020 U.S. presidential election was mired in scandal before it even began. As early as April, Donald Trump was suggesting that mail-in voting would be rife with fraud. By June, he was claiming that mail-in voting would be used to rig the election. In July, Fox News’ Chris Wallace…

(and not in a good way) — By now, it’s more or less an open secret that the good folks at Tether Limited are crooks who have fraudulently pumped the cryptocurrency market in order to enrich themselves and their co-conspirators. If this comes as a surprise to you, or if you’ve heard nothing about it, or if…

Reality seems to be diametrically opposed to human comprehension It’s generally assumed that physics provides us with objective truths about reality. The general consensus seems to be that we are slowly but surely figuring things out, getting gradually closer and closer to understanding everything there is to know about the…

The digital counterfeiters have provided an unprecedented insight into their own fraudulent scheme, but their supporters are still too clueless to be concerned. — In my article on the Coinbase direct listing, I gave a run-down on the enormous counterfeiting scheme being run by Tether Limited, the shady company behind the enormously popular stable-coin USDT. For those who aren’t up-to-date, I’ll try to make a long story short:

A shady group of digital counterfeiters engineered a crypto bull market in the lead-up to Coinbase’s direct listing IPO — If you followed the news last week, you might have noticed that the popular American crypto-exchange Coinbase just had a blockbuster IPO. For years, they have been the go-to exchange for American crypto investors, as they have complied with regulatory instructions and given an outward impression of both transparency and…

Paradoxes derived from the classic thought experiment shed light on fate, free will, and the fundamental structure of reality — I have always been fascinated by parables of fate and free will, because when done properly they are timeless. The “moral” of these stories is never some minor ethical quandary but a metaphysical truth which applies to all of us, always and forever. In an ancient parable from the Babylonian…