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Popular Mechanics May 30, 2008 Richard Muller |
Physicist: Einstein Would Approve of Moving the Island on Lost How did Ben make the island "disappear" in last night's season finale? It's all relativity, argues a top professor who even uses Lost in his classes. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Time Travel Great minds have doubted time travel in the past, only to admit that the possibility simply cannot be excluded. |
Popular Mechanics January 21, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Lost Season Five Premiere: 2 Hours of Time Travel, Wormholes and Exotic Matter Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof once told Popular Mechanics that he has "a long and storied history in every single time-travel story that's ever been written," and Season Five's two-part, two-hour premiere, called "Because You Left" and "The Lie," draws on that knowledge. |
Popular Mechanics May 30, 2008 Michio Kaku |
Time-Travel Expert: Lost Finale Opens New Trap Door in Space After last night's mind-bending episode, it's a question only this heady physicist could answer: How do you move an island, then show up halfway across the world? Let's just say the Looking Glass has nothing on Ben. |
Reason April 2002 Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Ritchie S. King |
The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector |
Smithsonian March 2007 Eric Jaffe |
DeLorean Tremens Hold onto your flux capacitors, time machines have nearly arrived |
Scientific American February 7, 2005 Govert Schilling |
String Revival Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects? |
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Wired September 2006 Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
Science News April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Popular Mechanics February 19, 2009 Michio Kaku |
Lost's Space-Time Backstory: Lost Season 5, Episode 6 After four seasons following the harrowing exploits of the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 on and off their island, last night's episode of Lost, "316," dropped a huge piece of the jigsaw puzzle into the laps of the show's devotees. |
Salon.com July 6, 2000 John Farrell |
Did Einstein cheat? Is the great physicist's most famous theory a crock? Members of the anti-relativity underground think so. |
Wired August 2000 |
GEO 600 laser interferometer It will measure gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity but yet to be observed. These waves - space-time ripples caused by the movement of large cosmic masses like black holes and compact binary stars - will help determine distances across the universe. |