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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.   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Scientific American
September 2006
George Johnson |
The Inelegant Universe Two new books argue that it is time for string theory to give way: The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin... Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Mark Anderson |
String Theory Made Easy Two books tackle one of the most complex theories known to man with surprisingly satisfactory results |
Scientific American
April 2006
Jim Holt |
Beyond the Standard Model Book Reviews: Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall... The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind... etc. |
Wired
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
Outside
May 2008
Evan Ratliff |
Has A Surfer/Snowboarder Who Lives In A Van Rewritten Physics? Maybe. Garrett Lisi opted not to go into academia following his PhD in physics. Instead, he opts to work on his unifying theory for the universe after he hits the waves or slopes. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
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. |
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... |
Fast Company
June 2002
Christine Canabou |
Books That Matter: Patrick Harker A book recommendation from Patrick Harker of the Wharton Business School... |
Scientific American
August 2006
Alexander Hellemans |
The Geometer of Particle Physics Alain Connes's noncommutative geometry offers an alternative to string theory. In fact, being directly testable, it may be better than string theory. |
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. |
Wired
Brian Greene |
Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. |
Scientific American
October 2005
Marguerite Holloway |
The Beauty of Branes Lisa Randall's thinking on higher dimensions, warped space and membranes catalyzed ideas in cosmology and physics. It might even unify all four forces of nature. |
Scientific American
November 2006
Michael Shermer |
Wronger Than Wrong The view that all wrong scientific theories are equal implies that no theory is better than any other. |
Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
David Kushner |
Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages In a twist of timing unto itself, the DVD release of The Time Tunnel comes when the real science of warped passages is making waves. Warped Passages is the trippy and groundbreaking book on the hidden dimensions of the universe by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law Turns out, the real culture war in science isn't about science at all -- it's about language. And to fight this war, we need to change the way we talk about scientific knowledge. |
Science News
May 19, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Cosmic Numerology Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Johannes Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design... |
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. |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
Chemistry World
May 2007
Philip Ball |
The Crucible Reflections on the long-running debate about how colloids stick together. |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
Wired
February 2007
Hodgman et al. |
What We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42 of the biggest questions in science... Six mysteries of the universe solved... Smart answers to silly questions... |
Science News
August 6, 2005 |
From the August 3, 1935, issue Zeppelin Models Whirled at 200 Miles Per Hour in Tests... Prof. Bohr Opposes Einstein in Quantum Theory Controversy... |
| AskMen.com |
It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Graham P. Collins |
Limits on Human Comprehension May Explain Exceptions to the Rules of Physics The mathematical theory of knowledge-limits claims the universe lies beyond the grasp of any intellect |
Fast Company
January 9, 2012 |
What Do You Get When You Cross Pajama Jeans, TV Hats, And The New Asus Padfone? Some Really Weird Products. This month's launch of the Asus Padfone (tablet + phone = Padfone!) is the latest in a string of weird, two-in-one products. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014
Philip Ball |
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty This book explores the cultural reception of quantum physics since its earliest days, when Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others grappled with the bizarre findings of their research, telling them how the world is structured. |
Science News
May 14, 2005 |
From the May 11, 1935, Issue Pastime of Kings Revived... New Anti-Aircraft "Ears" Hear "Enemy" 12 Miles Away... Einstein Attacks Quantum Mechanics... |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2012
Caryl Richards |
Theory of quantum optical devices Semiconductor Quantum Optics by Mackillo Kira and Stephan Koch is an extremely detailed description that rapidly builds on the fundamental concepts to the more esoteric light - -matter phenomena in low-dimensional semiconductors. |
Science News
January 27, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 24, 1931 Einstein discusses revolution he caused in scientific thought... Women remember pleasant events, men unpleasant... |
Science News
May 20, 2006 |
Science Safari: Darwin and Evolution This online exhibit is a fascinating account of how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and how that theory is regarded today. |
Scientific American
November 2008 |
Readers Respond on "The Self-Organizing Quantum Universe"--And More... Letters to the editor on no-till Farming, space time triangles and dancing animals. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2006
John R. Brandt |
Brandt On Leadership: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? The corporate world has its own theory on relativity, and Albert Einstein has nothing to do with it. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Michael Brooks |
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting Physicists say they can make money that can't be copied -- at least in theory |
Industrial Physicist
Apr/May 2003
Jennifer Oullette |
Switching from physics to biology Physicists in transition help shape biological theory. |
Science News
July 4, 2009 |
Intel ISEF Discussion Panel Nobelists to students: Being wrong may be just right |
Science News
Julie Rehmeyer |
Traveler's Dilemma: When It's Smart To Be Dumb Some game theory paradoxes can be resolved by assuming that people adopt multiple personae, and aren't rational. |
Science News
October 13, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Tangled Tale A jostled string forms knots quickly and there is an entire branch of mathematics devoted to understanding the formation of these knots. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
Wired
August 2003
Michio Kaku |
A User's Guide to Time Travel All it takes is a grasp of theoretical physics, control of the space-time continuum, and maybe a ball of cosmic string. |
Technology Research News
January 14, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles. |
Chemistry World
March 2011 |
Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball |
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... |
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. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional. |
