Culture | Environment
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Chapter one
Illusion
Matter | Physics
The Mystery of Time’s Arrow
This simple model of the universe shows how one natural law points toward order.
Ideas | Psychology
Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
The high speed of society has jammed your internal clock.
Chapter two
Eddy
Matter | Physics
How to Get Close to a Black Hole
Want to understand the most mysterious object in the universe? Make one at home.
Matter | Physics
How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time
Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.
Matter | Physics
Paradox Is Illuminating the Black Hole
How reconciling opposites is driving the science of black holes forward.
Matter | Physics
The Strangeness of Black Holes
From quantum information to the Schwarzschild radius.
Matter | Physics
How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered
Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.
Chapter three
Churn
Matter | Physics
When Beauty Gets in the Way of Science
Insisting that new ideas must be beautiful blocks progress in particle physics.
Matter | Physics
How Does Turbulence Get Started?
The high stakes of solving one of science’s most obstinate problems.
Matter | Astronomy
Why Europa Is the Place to Go for Alien Life
NASA is scheduled to probe the Jovian moon in 2023.
Chapter four
Tides
Numbers | Math
Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns Into a Traffic Jam
Those aggravating slowdowns aren’t one driver’s fault. They’re everybody’s fault.
Culture | Psychology
In the Flow on Half Dome
“I felt elated, alive. ‘Look where we are!’ I shouted. ‘This is crazy!’”
Matter | Physics
Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
Getting human feeling to match the math is an ultimate goal in physics.
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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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