Category: Physics, Earth & Space
Meyer: When Stephen Hawking Spoke “From Beyond the Grave”
The great physicist failed to see the implications of his own work, which may be the saddest thing of all.
“Anti-Hagiography”: A Critical Look at Stephen Hawking
Would he have achieved anything like the scientific renown and celebrity he did if he had been healthy, without the disability for which he was known?
Three Tough Existential Questions for Steve Meyer
Brian Keating asks what Meyer would put in a space-bound time capsule like the Voyager Golden Record, as Carl Sagan had the opportunity to do.
Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking
Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists.
Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing
Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links.