In an experiment that ticks most of the mystery boxes in modern physics, a group of researchers announced Wednesday that they had simulated a pair of black holes in a quantum computer and sent a ...

Readers ready to embrace their inner applied mathematician will enjoy this brisk, bare-bones introduction to classical mechanics drawn from Stanford University’s “Continuing Studies” program. Although ...

They’re generally not people like Leonard Susskind, a renowned physics professor at Stanford and a prime architect of string theory. His new book, his first for a general audience, has the provocative ...

**Safi Bahcall** is a second-generation physicist (the son of two astrophysicists) and a biotech entrepreneur. He received his BA summa cum laude from Harvard and his Ph.D.in physics from Stanford, ...

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Three decades ago, a young English physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that when something is sucked into a black hole, it disappears. Most ...

As Newton knew it, things moved in three-dimensional space, and they moved in absolute time. Space was absolute. Time was absolute. And there was no reason, there was no reason for him to invent ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In college, I had a roommate who came off an acid trip babbling ...