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IEEE Spectrum October 2012 |
The Cosmological Supercomputer How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again |
Reason March 2007 Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
Scientific American November 2008 David Appell |
Planck Satellite Mission Set to Explore Cosmic Secrets Planck mission promises to pierce inflation and other cosmic secrets |
Wired December 2002 Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
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. |
Wired December 2002 Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
Science News July 18, 2009 Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Reason April 2002 Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
Scientific American May 2009 George Musser |
Mapping the Universe with Helium A new way to squeeze information from the microwave background. |
Science News January 27, 2007 |
Timeline: From the January 23, 1937, Issue America's First Slums... Expanding Universe Theory Receives Blow in Discussions... Famous Mathematical Problem Solved at Chicago... |
Scientific American July 2008 |
Readers Respond: "When Markets Beat the Polls" Schizophrenia -- Markets vs. Polls -- Expanding Universe |
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... |
Scientific American February 7, 2005 Govert Schilling |
String Revival Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects? |
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 5, 2010 Allie Townsend |
Fringe Finale Bends, But Conserves the Laws of Physics The Fringe team arrives in Manhattan just in time to discover that something has scrambled the atoms of the building along with everything and everyone inside. |