Sam Baron

Sam Baron

Associate professor, Australian Catholic University

Sam Baron is an associate professor at the Australian Catholic University whose areas of expertise include metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of time and metaphilosophy. Sam completed his PhD in philosophy 2012 at the University of Sydney. Since then, he has published widely on topics in metaphysics and philosophy of science, in a range of philosophy journals.

Articles by: Sam Baron

An artist's illustration of a black hole. The center of black holes are examples of singularities.

Could humans use black holes to time travel?

By Sam Baron published

Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don't expect to be visiting dinosaurs any time soon.

An illustration of time, space-time, with a clock and a cosmic background.

Time might not exist — but that's okay

By Sam Baron published

Does time exist? The answer to this question may not be as obvious as it first seems.