The Shape of Gravity
New insights into theories with extra dimensions have the potential to address outstanding issues in cosmology.
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Parallel Universes
Could there be a universe in which gravity is a bit stronger, or the electron a bit heavier?
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Large Cosmic Lessons in Physics
Is the universe trying to tell us something?
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Lee Smolin on the Nature and Future of the Universe
What is the future of the future? Will it all end in fire or in ice? And what kinds of events will the penultimate reveal? Jill Neimark asks theoretical physicist Lee Smolin.
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Review of Paul Brockelman’s “Cosmology and Creation”
He constructs a cosmology nucleated on big-bang cosmology.
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Review of Jeffery Sobosan’s “Romancing the Universe”
Review of Jeffery G. Sobosan, Romancing the Universe: Theology, Science, and Cosmology (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999). Sobosan is a theologian and I a physicist, so I began with trepidation concerning the depth and accuracy of his scientific writing. Thankfully, my prejudice was baseless—Sobosan references current mainstream theories of quantum physics,…