Quick note today: I’m pleased and honored to share with you that the world-renowned journal Science has published a review of my upcoming book! The book, Waves in an Impossible Sea, appears in stores in just 10 days (and can be pre-ordered now.) It’s a non-technical account of how Einstein’s relativity and quantum physics come ... Read more
Nothing goes faster than the speed of light in empty space, also known as the cosmic speed limit c. Right? Well, umm… the devil is in the details. Here are some of those details: I addressed issue #1 in a blog post last year. Today I’ve just put up an article on issue #2. (This ... Read moreMy two new webpages from earlier this week addressed the zero-point energy for the simple case of a ball on a spring and for the much richer case of a guitar string; the latter served as a warmup to today’s webpage, the third in this series, which explains the zero-point energy of a field of ... Read moreIn my last post, I introduced a new webpage concerning “zero-point energy”, the core concept that lies at the heart of the hierarchy puzzle. I have now posted the next webpage in the series, which extends the notion of zero-point energy to a slightly more complex system, an ordinary metal string of finite length. It’s ... Read more