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An Oxford scientist's controversial theory rethinks dark matter and dark energy.
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? And does it really even matter?
Harvard's theoretical physicist Lisa Randall links the extinction of the dinosaurs to the mysterious "dark matter".
Cosmologists behind braneworld theories see our universe as being a part of a complex inter-dimensional world.
Either possibility offers a tremendous existence, but philosophically, there’s so much more to think about. “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, […]
Big Think's podcast where experts discuss surprise topics outside of their comfort zones. This week, science writer Mary Roach on dark matter, philosophy, artificial intelligence and more.
And if it were, is there any way we could detect that this were the case? “Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would […]
A small animal shuts down CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest scientific instrument, right before an experiment to detect new particles.
Never have so many owed so much to — something so invisible.
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How the “hierarchy problem,” or why gravity is so much weaker than everything else, might be the key to the entire Universe. “I just think too many nice things have […]
"We need to go back to the discovery, to posing a question, to having a hypothesis and having kids know that they can discover the answers and can peel away a layer."
Why is gravity so different from the other forces? On the hierarchy problem. “Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence — love of […]
Oprah Winfrey, the internationally famous talk-show host, media proprietor, philanthropist, recently declared that disbelief in god is incompatible with experiencing wonder. However, Winfrey’s unjustified view on atheism is only the […]
UPDATED: 12.12 10:08 AM EST: If you were hoping for an early Christmas present, you will be disappointed. The discovery of the Higgs particle will not be confirmed until 2012 at […]
Following up on her first book, renowned physicist Lisa Randall's newest work explores the cosmos, from the atoms being smashed at the L.H.C. to physicists' search for dark matter.
A conversation with the professor of theoretical physics at Harvard.
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Physics is a process of rigorous, exhausting intellectual inquiry, but it does offer occasional moments that are “kind of fun.” For Harvard’s Lisa Randall, one such moment came when she […]
Randall’s creative process is pretty random, she says.
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String theory is trying to reconcile quantum mechanics and gravity, Randall says.
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Who put all those multiple dimensions out there anyway?
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A New Yorker makes the leap from the finite to the theoretical.
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Many fear that if budget cuts need to be made, science will suffer, says Randall.
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A time of short-sighted greed.
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The government, Randall says, needs to think in the long term.
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We know ourselves best so we generalize outwards, Randall says.
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Some science is risky, but much of science is not, says Randall.
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What are they, where do they come from, and the proof?
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A little scientific method couldn’t hurt.
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Randall explains where the standard model for particle physics falls short.
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