[See below for travel update in English] Ab heute ist die Deutsche Übersetzung von „ Lost in Math “ in Handel erhältlich unter dem Titel „...

Fluid art by Vera de Gernier. Stephen Hawking sadly passed away earlier this year , but his scientific legacy is well alive. The black h...

I’ve done it again. This times I layered up to nine copies of myself. I have also squeaked out a high D, drawn a space ship that looks like ...

Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin By Cornelia Dean Belknap Press (March 13, 2017) It’s not easy, being a science...

Old photo. My father died a few weeks shy of his 42nd birthday. Went to bed one night, didn’t wake up the next morning. The death certif...

[image: kamere.com ] Physicists still haven’t figured out what dark matter is made of, if anything. The idea that it’s made of particles...

Bad stock photos of my job. A physicist is excited to have found a complicated way of writing the number 2. When Senator Rand Paul last ...

“When the universe expands, into what is it expanding? In what medium is it expanding? Is the universe like a bubble in a higher dimension s...

I’ll be traveling the next two weeks. First I am in Santa Fe, giving both a colloquium and a public lecture , and then I am in Oslo, giving...

Roger Penrose really should have won a Nobel Prize for something. Though I’m not sure for what. Maybe Penrose-tilings. Or Penrose diagrams...

Tam Hunt. [Tam Hunt, photo on the right, is a renewable energy lawyer in Hawaii and an “affiliate” in the Department of Psychological an...

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality Hardcover  By Anil Ananthaswamy Dutton (...

“Is it possible that our ‘elementary’ particles are actually large scale aggregations of a different set of something much smaller? Then, ...

I promised my daughters I would write a song in German, so here we go:   “Trostpreis” means “consolation prize”. This song was inspired...

[Image: Dreamstime.com ] 1. Entropy doesn’t measure disorder, it measures likelihood. Really the idea that entropy measures disorder i...