Epstein Secrets

jects obscure that they are actually attracted to the earth's surface at the same rate; and Darwin's epic realization that the diversity of life on Earth could arise from a single progenitor by the simple process of natural selection. None of these connections was all that obvious, at first. However,

pprenticeship as a bookbinder, Faraday attended the lec- tures of the famous chemist Humphry Davy, then the head of the Royal Institution. Afterward Faraday presented Davy with a three-hundred- page, beautifully bound book containing the notes Faraday had taken during the lectures. Within a year, Faraday

ing for me a copy of a photograph of Mi- chael Faraday taken in 186i. I have treasured it ever since. I don't believe in hero worship, but if I did, Faraday would be up there with the best. Perhaps more than any other scientist of the nine- teenth century, he is responsible for the technology that powers

rtainty principle, as the energy it can carry is so small that no visible violation of the conservation of en- ergy will occur. Thus, an electron on Earth can emit a virtual photon that could travel to Alpha Centauri, four light-years away, and that pho- ton can still produce a force on an electron the

, where this gauge symmetry of nature requires the existence of photons, light, and all the equations and phenomena first discovered by Maxwell and Faraday, then God's appar- ent command "Let there be light" becomes identical with the command "Let electromagnetism have a gauge symmetry." It is less catc

0. The strands of cable needed to make up the magnetic coils in the LHC span about 270,000 kilometers, or about six times the circum- ference of the Earth. If all the filaments in the strands were unrav- eled, they would stretch to the Sun and back more than five times. 11. The total energy in each bea

help explain the symmetry properties of his Eightfold Way. If quarks, which Gell-Mann viewed simply as a nice mathematical accounting tool (just as Faraday had earlier viewed 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atindd 193 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00286115 194 THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD-SO FAR his proposal of