Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” This touches on the heart of the argumentum ad populum fallacy. Physical reality does not require belief to sustain it, and belief...

He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began to die out. He saw it turn from a furiously blazing ring into...

Let me sleep,” he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror – this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shut of a man’s door...