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The overlooked philosophy that could shed light on reality’s deepest mysteries

The overlooked philosophy that could shed light on reality’s deepest mysteries

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Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Over the past few decades, some scientists have claimed that science does not need philosophy. Usually, the next statement out of their mouths is one rich with philosophical assumptions they’re not even aware of. It’s kind of sad. Fortunately, there are lots of great examples of scientists and philosophers engaging in rich and fruitful dialogues. As a physicist with a longstanding interest in philosophy, I’m happy these discussions are happening. Still, I think something significant is missing, and I’d like to drag that absence out into the light. When we talk about the “philosophy of science” or even “philosophy and science,” the conversations are generally monotone. What I mean by this is that the philosophies represented in the discussions come from a narrow part of the world’s heritage of philosophical inquiry. I think this must change if we want answers to key scientific questions: the nature of time, quantum mechanics, …

Paddle under the Pennines: longest and deepest UK canal tunnel opens for canoe trips | North of England

Paddle under the Pennines: longest and deepest UK canal tunnel opens for canoe trips | North of England

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“You’re in a canoe, not a boat, so you are very exposed,” said Gordon McMinn as he prepared to paddle into the UK’s longest, highest and deepest canal tunnel. “You’re vulnerable, you’re under your own steam, you are up and close to history … it is quite an experience.” McMinn, a volunteer team leader at the Canal & River Trust, has coordinated what it is hoped will become a bucket-list experience – the opportunity to paddle under the Pennines. The guided 3.5-mile canoe trips are through Standedge Tunnel, a jaw dropping feat of engineering which is 194 metres underground and 196 metres above sea level. The narrow canal tunnel from Marsden in West Yorkshire to Diggle in Greater Manchester opened in 1811 after 17 years of construction. The Guardian was invited for a preview before the trips are launched in a fortnight’s time. Emergency contact details were provided – “just in case” – and McMinn sought to reassure us that the risk of the disease leptospirosis was tiny. “It’s only really if you get wet …

World’s deepest tunnel that’s 35 miles long that cost £9.6bn | World | News

World’s deepest tunnel that’s 35 miles long that cost £9.6bn | World | News

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At 2,300 metres deep and 57 kilometres long, the Gotthard Base Tunnel broke records when it opened to traffic in 2016. The idea of making a new tunnel in the Swiss Alps to connect the North Sea and the Mediterranean train was first thought up in the 1960s. But it wasn’t until 2012 that the huge project finally came to fruision and work began to construct a specially-designed straight tunnel that would allow trains to travel through at 250km/h. In order to build the tunnel millions of cubic metres of rock had to be excavated from beneath the alps, using huge tunnel boring machines known as “giant moles”. The idea behind the tunnel was to give different parts of Switzerland an economic boost. Construction bosses from Ballast Nedham say the record-breaking structure has been able to cut the journey time between Zurich and Milan to just two hours and 40 minutes – saving an hour from before the structure. Once opened it also took the crown of longest traffic tunnel, at 57km, taking the crown …

Hezbollah launches deepest attack inside Israel since Gaza war began | Israel War on Gaza News

Hezbollah launches deepest attack inside Israel since Gaza war began | Israel War on Gaza News

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The attack comes after Hezbollah said Israeli forces killed one of its fighters in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese group Hezbollah says it has launched drone attacks on Israeli bases north of the city of Acre in retaliation for the killing of one of its fighters, marking the deepest attack into Israeli territory since the Gaza war began. Hezbollah launched “a combined air attack using decoy and explosive drones that targeted” two Israeli bases halfway between Acre and Nahariyya, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The Iran-backed group said it acted in retaliation for an earlier Israeli attack killing one of its fighters. It published what appeared to be a satellite photo, with the location of the attack symbolised by a flash with a red circle around it. The Israeli military said it had no knowledge of any of its facilities being hit by Hezbollah, but had said earlier that it intercepted two “aerial targets” off Israel’s northern coast. Later on Tuesday, Lebanon’s official news agency NNA said at least two people were killed and …

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since Start of Gaza War

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since Start of Gaza War

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it had launched a drone attack against Israeli military bases north of the city of Acre, in its deepest strike into Israeli territory since the Gaza war began. The Israeli military said it had no knowledge of any of its facilities being hit by Hezbollah, but had said earlier on Tuesday that it intercepted two “aerial targets” off Israel’s northern coast. The two sides have been engaging in regular exchanges of missile fire and airstrikes since the start of the war in Gaza last October, but have refrained from pushing the conflict into all-out war. War in Israel and Gaza As the strikes have continued, however, fears have grown that an accident or miscalculation on either side could see the conflict could escalate rapidly, possibly drawing in other regional and world powers including the United States. Hezbollah said it had acted in retaliation for an earlier Israeli attack killing one of its fighters. The group published what appeared to be a satellite photo, with the location …

Ukraine’s latest attack is deepest strike yet inside Russia

Ukraine’s latest attack is deepest strike yet inside Russia

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Ukrainian drones attacked industrial facilities in the province of Tatarstan, Russian authorities said Tuesday, in what would be Kyiv’s deepest strike inside Russian territory since the war began more than two years ago. Seven people were injured in the attack on facilities near the cities of Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk, located some 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) east of Ukraine, Russian regional authorities said. The strike damaged a hostel for students and workers in a free economic zone where a factory manufacturing Iranian-designed drones is reportedly located, other media reports said. Tatarstan is known for its high level of industrialization. Tatarstan officials said the attack didn’t disrupt industrial production, while Nizhnekamsk’s mayor said the attempt to strike a refinery was thwarted by air defenses. Kyiv officials normally neither claim nor deny responsibility for attacks on Russian soil, though they sometimes refer obliquely to them. The …

All of Us Strangers: loneliness is our deepest shame – can cinema help us confront it?

All of Us Strangers: loneliness is our deepest shame – can cinema help us confront it?

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Olivia Laing wrote the book on loneliness. Over a decade ago, the British writer moved to New York City for the love of a man who then called it off. She stayed and sought out artists who anchored her solitude to the city. “I was possessed with a desire to find correlates,” she wrote in 2016’s The Lonely City, “physical evidence that other people had inhabited my state”. The book was both a memoir and a deeply researched biopic of 20th-century artists, among them Edward Hopper and Andy Warhol, who lit up the sensation of loneliness. There is a paradox to work that is created from an artist’s sense of dislocation – it can welcome the painfully isolated back into the human fold. As one of Laing’s artist subjects, David Wojnarowicz, told photographer Nan Goldin for Interview magazine, “We can all affect each other by being open enough to make …

Channel 4 plans deepest job cuts in over 15 years after TV ad slump | Channel 4

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Channel 4 is drawing up plans to cut potentially as many as 200 jobs in its biggest round of layoffs in more than 15 years, as it seeks to make savings to weather the worst TV advertising downturn since 2008. The broadcaster, which has undergone a rapid expansion in recent years with staff numbers swelling to a record level of more than 1,200, aims to dramatically reduce a wage bill that now stands at more than £108m a year. It said the restructure, which management began working on late last year, was intended to focus on accelerating its digital streaming strategy while limiting the extent to which it must make deep cuts to its £700m-plus content budget. “Like every organisation, we are having to deal with an extremely uncertain economy in the short term and the need to accelerate our transformation to become a wholly digital public service broadcaster in the long term,” a spokesperson said. “As a result, we need to continue to divest from our linear channels business and simplify our operations to …

Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark

Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark

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Installation Pigs in Space by HC Gilje Tarup Dark Sky Festival Tårup Dark SkyBiennial science and art festival Funen, Denmark IN A village on Denmark’s third-largest island, a group of astronomers, artists, performers and enthusiasts gather to celebrate the night sky, and to mourn its loss. Its remote location could have made it a tricky place to hold a festival to honour the heavens, but the village of Tårup (population 290) is unique: its residents have chosen to have no street lights, making it an enclave of darkness. It is a bad… Source link

I Thought Uncovering My Father’s Deepest Secrets Would Make Us Closer. I Was Wrong.

I Thought Uncovering My Father’s Deepest Secrets Would Make Us Closer. I Was Wrong.

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“We’re getting a divorce,” my mother said with practiced steadiness. “Dad is going to tell you why.” It was a sticky afternoon in June the week after school let out for the summer. I’d just finished my sophomore year of high school, and my soon-to-be-freshman brother and I sat across from our parents in the green and gold living room they’d designed together. My mother stood up to switch places with my father so that he would be able to lean forward on the embroidered ottoman, his elbows on his knees. I can only guess how many times he rehearsed saying those words. Each one came out like the breaths I saw him take when he loosened his tie after a day of important meetings at his office. But neither of my parents could have prepared for the hollowness that set in amongst the tears we all shared ― the hole left by losing, in an instant, the hope that life could stay contained within our expectations of what it was supposed to be. At …