Content tagged "physics"
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Video and podcast: “Time Traveling with James Gleick”
In conversation with Alan Lightman, international best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History.
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Time Traveling with James Gleick
International best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities”
James Carroll, Rebecca Goldstein, Alan Lightman, and Robert Weinberg talk with Seth Mnookin on “the differences and similarities in the kinds of knowledge available through inquiry in the sciences and humanities.”
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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation
“’As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.’ So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g.”
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The Accidental Universe
“These phenomena have been explained as necessary consequences of the fundamental laws of nature. This long and appealing trend may be coming to an end.”
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I’m Shocked! Shocked! to Find There Are Neutrinos Going On Here
Many physicists note that challenges to special relativity have a very poor track record.
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The Day We Found the Universe
Marcia Bartusiak’s “riveting and mesmerizing story behind the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.”
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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab wins Microsoft 2008 Dream-Build-Play Competition
The winning game, “CarneyVale: Showtime,” was developed by a team of seven Singaporean students working in the Singapore office of the international game lab. The prize includes $40,000 and consideration for publication on the Microsoft XBox LIVE service.
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Cosmos Incognito: Vera Rubin Shines Light on Dark Matter
Vera Rubin and the irrefutable evidence she gathered to persuade astronomers galaxies spin faster than Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation allows.
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The Dancer in Nature
The thesis integrates personal narrative and descriptions of dance performances with scientific discussion of the art form
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Neutrino Capital of the World
With the science around neutrinos, the state of South Dakota has introduced a unique funding scheme in which science is democratic.
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Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman’s “modern classic”, a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905.
