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Martin Eden: The Book That Knows Too Much About You
On Jack London's most personal novel, and why some books are not read but survived.
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Vacuum Energy: Why Nothing Weighs Something
The quantum vacuum is not empty. It seethes with fluctuations, virtual particles, and an energy density that our best theory predicts to be 10¹²² times larger than observed. This is either the worst prediction in physics, or a clue to something we don't yet understand.
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: When the Universe Chose a Direction
The Lagrangian is symmetric. The vacuum is not. This asymmetry between the laws and their solution is the origin of mass, the origin of phases of matter, and possibly the origin of everything.
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Dostoevsky: The Writer Who Knew Too Much
On suffering, freedom, and the novelist who saw the twentieth century coming.
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General Relativity: Gravity Is Not a Force
Einstein's greatest achievement, the geometric theory of gravity, spacetime curvature, and why falling is the most natural thing in the universe.