Epstein Secrets

absolute zero. And it's empty: less than one millionth the density of the highest vacuum that scientists can currently attain. That is how unlike Earth a typical location is. Yet the two are similar in one remarkable way. Take a telescope and gaze even further out than where we've just been, at a "q

hysicists, including three Nobel Prize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardus 't Hoeft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in

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

St. Andrews, right next to the famous Old Course, the birthplace of golf. In 1980 at St. Andrews, Glashow, fresh from having won a Nobel Prize, and Gerardus 't Hooft, a famous former student of Veltman's, lec- tured at the school, and I was privileged to attend as a graduate student. I arrived late and g

absolute zero. And it's empty: less than one millionth the density of the highest vacuum that scientists can currently attain. That is how unlike Earth a typical location is. Yet the two are similar in one remarkable way. Take a telescope and gaze even further out than where we've just been, at a "q

hysicists, including three Nobel Prize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardus 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in