Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin explained the incomplete nature of quantum theory before a packed lecture hall in the Science Center on Wednesday evening, discussing his newest book, “Einstein’s ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, will speak on "Using the Universe as a Microscope to ...
Popularisers of modern physics face a problem that is possibly insuperable. The mathematics that lies at the heart of the subject is too hard for a non-specialist to grasp, and yet, without the maths, ...
There was an air of melancholy about the theoretical physicist David Bohm when he came to speak at the University of Toronto in the mid-1980s – or so it seemed to me at the time, a student with only a ...
We physicists are all romantics. Don't laugh; it's true. In our youth we all fall deeply in love. We fall in love with a beautiful idea: beyond this world of constant change lies another world that is ...
I often hear people complain that science has a "linear" view of the world. This puzzled me, until I realised that what they have in mind is connected to an absolute notion of time, preceding steadily ...
At an interdisciplinary gathering of academics discussing the concept of time, I once heard a scientist tell the assembled humanities scholars that physics can now replace all their woolly notions of ...
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