Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

What We Cannot Know: From consciousness to the cosmos, the cutting edge of science explained

October 18, 2022

‘Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting’ Bill Bryson

Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know.

The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things

November 15, 2022

Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way – their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe…

The Holographic Universe

July 3, 2024

‘There is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it – from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons – are only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality literally beyond both space and time.’