Epstein Secrets

Newton was an extraordinary man. He discovered many of the physical principles we use today, and his view of the Universe reigned unchallenged until Einstein’s discovery of relativity. He was also, by many accounts, a nasty piece of work. Not only was he a famous academic, he also head of the Royal Mint. H

k. Who cares why? In 1964, John Bell, an Irish physicist working at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (“CERN’), devised a way to test Einstein’s hidden variable theory. He pointed out that if photons possess hidden variables and we randomly measure them with a detector set at three angles, w

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on to win Nobel Prizes for Physics in 1956 and 1968, respectively. There are many similar anecdotes: Apparently stupid people go on to great things. Einstein’s teacher famously stated he would never amount to anything and Sir John Gurdon’s school report said he was ‘too stupid’ for science. He went on to d

e efficiency of photosynthesis. No prize has yet been awarded for this discovery but it must be a contender for a Nobel Prize at some point. Recently Travis Craddock, now of the Nova Institute in Florida, has submitted a paper showing a very similar geometry of proteins exists within tubulin microtubules in the br

sed at the Institute of Advanced Mathematics in the USA on the Princeton University campus, next door to the Institute for Advanced Study that housed Einstein. Turing travelled to America in 1937 and completed his doctoral thesis at Princeton. He might have stayed, but Europe was heating up and war seemed i

o place in biological entities, but this orthodoxy has recently been overthrown by the discovery of quantum processes in photosynthesis. The paper by Travis Craddock of Nova and others suggests there may also be quantum structures in the neurons of our brains and we might possess quantum computers after all. But,