"at high speeds & tiny scales — those intuitions cease to serve us, making it impossible for us to do science without confronting our philosophical assumptions head-on. Suddenly we find ourselves in a place where #science and #philosophy can no longer be neatly distinguished. A place, according to the physicist Eric Cavalcanti, called #experimental #metaphysics”


🔗 https://www.QuantaMagazine.org/metaphysical-experiments-test-hidden-assumptions-about-reality-20240730/
🔗 https://experts.griffith.edu.au/8103-eric-cavalcanti

#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravelThinkers #EricCavalcanti #MetaPhysics

‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Test Hidden Assumptions About Reality | Quanta Magazine

Experiments that test physics and philosophy “as a single whole” may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe.

Quanta Magazine