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Michael Brooks

I Just Want to Know What I’m Made Of

It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end. Can we please go back to the math?

March 8, 2022

Imaginary Numbers Are Reality

How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers.

February 9, 2022

The Country Gentleman of Physics

Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have always roamed free of academia.

May 12, 2021

The Physicist’s New Book of Life

Jeremy England says religious ideas can inform our scientific quest for the origin of life.

October 21, 2020

Why Astrology Matters

Seeing meaning in the stars is a vital part of the scientific story.

February 5, 2020

The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science

What a 16th-century scientist can tell us about the fate of a physicist like David Bohm.

June 18, 2019