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The Inflated Debate Over Cosmic Inflation

Why the majority of physicists are on one side of a recent exchange of letters.

May 30, 2017

When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach.

November 28, 2016

Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

November 17, 2015

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

January 29, 2015

The Bridge From Nowhere

How is it possible to get something from nothing?

July 31, 2014

Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics

To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal.

January 10, 2014