Nick Samoylov

Quantum physics theory works successfully almost a hundred years already. But does it describes reality? Its “mysteries” and paradoxes excite our fantasy and desire to use them to explain all the not understood yet phenomena and conrtradictions.

War is bad by any account. Once it has touched you, you become convinced that those who wage it have no excuses.

Communism fueling my hope again. It happened many times in the history when seemingly discarded and almost forgotten ideas came back again on a new level of understanding.

Quantum theory is expressed in maths. But when the scientists talk about their work to laypeople, they inevitably use ordinary language and the ambiguity and misinterpretation creep in.

Pyramids, Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe. Why spend so much time and energy? What was the motivation for building them?

Truth is not relative, and yet we discover that it changes as we learn new facts. Even facts seem to depend on the interpretation.

Why is he so enigmatic and still so appealing? Is it because of his monsters? Or because of his scary images of consequences for the sinful behavior? Or his bold assessment that our well-established order just does not make sense? We are all in his paintings even if we do not want to acknowledge it.

His name is usually associated with something negative. However, he was in fact not a machiavellian (in the typical modern meaning) at all. Let us look into the historical context and see what drove him to write his famous book The Prince.

Everything has an origin - the moment of time, the place, the reason, the creator. It is sometimes surprising to discover that many things and ideas we take for granted have their origin in the ancient and even prehistoric times.

Quantum physics is different from the classical one and surrounded by many myths, one of which is that it is not understandable, which is not true. The source of the problem and its resolution are in what “understandable” means.