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In an era of high anxiety about artificial intelligence, one former Harvard physicist is using it to explore God.

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A former Harvard physics lecturer and science communicator has said that heaven could have a physical location. While he draws on foundational ideas, such as Hubble’s law and the cosmic horizon, the ...

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...