My aim as a theoretical physicist is to unite quantum theory with Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. While there are a few… | Continue reading
The one law of physics that virtually all scientists believe will never be found to be wrong is the second law of thermodynamics.… | Continue reading
The one law of physics that virtually all scientists believe will never be found to be wrong is the second law of thermodynamics.… | Continue reading
Imagine that someone asked you to come up with a sequence of five words. In any other year, some idiosyncratic combination would likely… | Continue reading
The Man Who Loved PhysicsBy Alan Lightman Several years ago, I attended a Buddhist retreat in which I was introduced to the idea of… | Continue reading
Arguably the best prescription to improve the situation facing women in science is for there to be more women in science.Oleg Golovnev… | Continue reading
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph… | Continue reading
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph… | Continue reading
It’s easy to name science and math geniuses. I can just flip open my old book from the 1960s, which lists “100 Great Scientists”;… | Continue reading
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three researchers who confirmed that Einstein’s general relativity predicts black holes,… | Continue reading
What Einstein said was nearly as scathing as any contemporary critique of religion you might hear from Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris,… | Continue reading
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three researchers who confirmed that Einstein’s general relativity predicts black holes,… | Continue reading
Scientists have now produced apparently effective vaccines at sufficient scale to vaccinate most vulnerable populations in the United… | Continue reading
It’s easy to name science and math geniuses. I can just flip open my old book from the 1960s, which lists “100 Great Scientists”;… | Continue reading
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three researchers who confirmed that Einstein’s general relativity predicts black holes,… | Continue reading
What Einstein said was nearly as scathing as any contemporary critique of religion you might hear from Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris,… | Continue reading
What Einstein said was nearly as scathing as any contemporary critique of religion you might hear from Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris,… | Continue reading
When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and… | Continue reading
On May 29, 1810, Katherine Fritsch, a sister in the Moravian Church, boarded a coach in Lititz, Pennsylvania, along with a group of… | Continue reading
By the end of 1930, Austrian-born theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli was at the height of his achievements, yet an absolute emotional… | Continue reading
Chess offers a unique opportunity. It could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift… | Continue reading
Chess offers a unique opportunity. It could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers… | Continue reading
On May 29, 1810, Katherine Fritsch, a sister in the Moravian Church, boarded a coach in Lititz, Pennsylvania, along with a group of… | Continue reading
By the end of 1930, Austrian-born theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli was at the height of his achievements, yet an absolute emotional… | Continue reading
When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and… | Continue reading
On May 29, 1810, Katherine Fritsch, a sister in the Moravian Church, boarded a coach in Lititz, Pennsylvania, along with a group of… | Continue reading
Joe Pettit is a person of contradictions. A lover of solitude who manages teams, an engineer who writes poetry and paints, a family… | Continue reading
Political life is increasingly sectarian, unhinged from the reality and magnitude of policy disagreements.“Foundation of the… | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.New research finds that the subjective experience of time is… | Continue reading
While Jimmy Carter was president of the United States, his younger brother, Billy, a brewer, endorsed Billy Beer, which featured his… | Continue reading
Hiking the Franconia Ridge Loop is an intimidating proposition. The trail, in the heart of New Hampshire’s White Mountain National… | Continue reading
Who will say ‘corpse’ to his vivid cast? Who will say ‘body’ to his opaque repose? —Seamus Heaney, “Grauballe Man”… | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.New research finds that the subjective experience of time is… | Continue reading
Hiking the Franconia Ridge Loop is an intimidating proposition. The trail, in the heart of New Hampshire’s White Mountain National… | Continue reading
The election of Joe Biden is the best thing to happen to conservation in the past four years. It won’t be easy to undo the damage… | Continue reading
Joe Pettit is a person of contradictions. A lover of solitude who manages teams, an engineer who writes poetry and paints, a family… | Continue reading
While Jimmy Carter was president of the United States, his younger brother, Billy, a brewer, endorsed Billy Beer, which featured his… | Continue reading
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph… | Continue reading
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph… | Continue reading
In the early 1960s, during the space race, neither American nor Soviet scientists really knew where planets like Mars or Venus were—especially… | Continue reading
In September, a writer for HBO’s Watchmen series, Cord Jefferson, was awarded an Emmy. I enjoyed the show’s first season, a sequel… | Continue reading
The ways in which this creature’s creators have successfully modeled him on human attributes can offer insights into how and why… | Continue reading
In September, a writer for HBO’s Watchmen series, Cord Jefferson, was awarded an Emmy. I enjoyed the show’s first season, a sequel… | Continue reading
When you bite into an ear of fresh corn, you are eating something profoundly unnatural. A modern ear is a big, flavorful thing packed… | Continue reading
In the early 1960s, during the space race, neither American nor Soviet scientists really knew where planets like Mars or Venus were—especially… | Continue reading
The ways in which this creature’s creators have successfully modeled him on human attributes can offer insights into how and why… | Continue reading
Not long ago, Joe Davis, the “artist-scientist” in George Church’s genetics lab at Harvard Medical School, was in Brittany,… | Continue reading
Sparingly these days do I find myself thinking I’ve got some time to kill. Time has a way of making itself scarce. I’m like some… | Continue reading