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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
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... |
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
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. |
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 |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
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 |
| 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. |
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. |
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. |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Richard Panek |
The Year of Albert Einstein His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Susan Karlin |
Film Review: The Nature of Existence A new documentary film tackles the big question |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber. |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
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
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. |
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. |
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
February 2007
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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... |
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 |
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... |
Science News
June 28, 1930 |
TimeLine: June 28, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Multiple Ailerons... Space as Sole Carrier of Reality... Planet Pluto... |
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. |
Scientific American
November 2008
George Musser |
New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs Quantum particles continue to behave in ways traditional particles do not |
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. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Albert Einstein We may love Einstein. But do we really know him? |
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... |
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. |
Scientific American
November 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: The Superorganism Quantum Ten by Sheilla Jones captures the scientific and the human aspects of quantum physics... The Superorganism by Bert Holldobler presents a rich and diverse natural history facts that illustrate superorganismic traits in insect societies... 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. |
Science News
February 15, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 11, 1933 Yellow sodium light effective outdoors... Tuning in on atomic hearts makes their breaking easier... Einstein develops quantum mechanics in latest paper |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Ritchie S. King |
The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector |
Science News
March 31, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 28, 1931 Prince lion-cub speaks a word for himself... Einstein finds past events not knowable with certainty... Physicists now sure vibrations occur in heart of atom... |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012 |
The Cosmological Supercomputer How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again |
Scientific American
July 2005
George Musser |
Flaw of Averages Is ordinary matter causing the cosmos to accelerate? |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Robert W. Lucky |
Is Math Still Relevant? The queen of the sciences may someday lose its royal status |
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... |
Science News
October 14, 2006 |
Science Safari: Hawking at CERN The CERN Web site offers a glimpse of physicist Stephen Hawking's visit and video of two lectures that he presented. |
Wired
May 22, 2007
Greta Lorge |
The Best Thought Experiments: Schrodinger's Cat, Borel's Monkeys Illustrative stories by famous scientists to illustrate their theoretical concepts. |
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... |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2015
Matt Gunther |
Einstein was right! In his new book, Einstein was right!, Karl Hess attempts to understand Einstein's motivations for criticizing quantum theory and how, in the end, he was right to do so. |
