David Deutsch, of the University of Oxford, is the sort of theoretical physicist who comes up with ideas that shock and confound his experimentalist colleagues—and then seems rather endearingly ...

Physicist David Deutsch is considered the founding father of quantum computing. In his 2011 book, The Beginning of Infinity, Deutsch argues that there is such a thing as objective beauty.

Humanity will use explanatory knowledge to control ever-larger swathes of the universe, with the potential to control the galaxy as our reach expands. This is according to David Deutsch, a ...

Deutsch is a physicist who laid out his multiverse hypothesis in a 1997 book called "The Fabric of Reality," in which he suggested that quantum computers' calculations take place across multiple ...

Physics Probability is as useful to physics as flat-Earth theory You can't explain how the world really works with probability, says physicist David Deutsch. It's time for a different approach ...

For the past year, Zuckerberg's book club, A Year of Books, has focused on big ideas that influence global society and business. His 23rd and final selection is Oxford physicist David Deutsch's ...

MIT math professor Peter Shor shared in the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with three other researchers, David Deutsch at the University of Oxford, Charles Bennett at IBM Research, and ...