…alone? His research has been broad and far-reaching, covering quantum mechanics, cosmology and black holes. In the 1980s he described the so-called Bunch-Davies vacuum—the quantum vacuum that existed just fractions…
…have become optimistic about the prospects for disentangling the threads of “nature” and “nurture”—that is, about determining the extent to which genes alone can explain differences within and between populations….
…episode, he tells his fascinating story about the history of exoplanetary research, his journey as a planet hunter and the stunning discoveries he’s made along the way. (continue reading) Icon-O…
…of the greatest physicists of the time, including Hendrik Casimir, Werner Heisenberg, Rudolf Peierls, Josef Jauch, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Julian Schwinger, John Bell, Bernard D’Espagnat, and, of…
…Fermi paradox, and become the Star-Trek-esque interstellar civilization of our wildest sci-fi dreams. Briley Lewis is a graduate student and NSF Fellow at UCLA, studying Astronomy & Astrophysics. Her research…