Michael Segal

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    Why “Hawking Radiation” Was Almost “Feynman Radiation”

    Nautilus’ Ingenious this month, Alan Lightman, is a successful writer and physicist, and one of the very rare people to receive an appointment in both science and humanities at MIT*. He did his doctoral research at Caltech while Richard Feynman was a professor there. One day, Lightman was on hand to see the brilliant and […]

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    Ingenious: Alan Lightman

    The physicist on writing, the writer on physics.

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    A Summer Gaze

    The Summer 2014 Quarterly tackles image and object.

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    Ingenious: Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

    A life of science and art.

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    Ingenious: Gregory Laughlin

    An astrophysicist looks into the future and the distance.

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    Ingenious: Simon DeDeo

    Cosmic microwaves and crime.

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    It’s Alive!

    The Spring 2014 Quarterly has awakened.

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    Higgs—The Movie

    The director of “Particle Fever” talks about his film.

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    The Metaphysical Baggage of Physics

    Lee Smolin argues that time is more fundamental than physical laws.

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    Ingenious: Max Tegmark

    A bird’s-eye view on life and the universe.