Lasers are cool. They’re useful during presentations, can fix your eyesight, and are capable of propelling spacecraft along their solar sails. Sometimes, they even burn holes in stuff.
H.G.Wells was responsible for our first iconic “time machine” – he even coined the phrase – basically a high-tech chair rigged with a dial and a level. Though time travel had been talked about before, Wells’ book certainly romanticized the idea. Since, we’ve seen it again and again: Time jumpers altering their pasts, spinning off [...]
Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem and to celebrate the association is displaying the manuscript of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity in its entirety for the first time. Nerds, delight!
While I was traveling last week I was lugging around an incredibly fascinating book called The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom. Dirac was one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. He predicted the existence of anti-matter, mathematically, before there was any experimental basis for it. He won [...]
