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...With this popularizing cover, Randall charts the history behind current theoretical physics, moving from Newton to Einstein to string theory to her own work. And she suggests that new discoveries await in the not-so-distant future. At the same time, she recollects her own experiences as a theoretical physicist, enlivening her prose with references to afternoons spent at Toscanini’s (the MIT branch, not the Harvard Square location). Ultimately, Randall gives her bulky 500-plus page text a (forgive the pun) more human dimension...
...dictatorships," he told Time. "Dictatorial regimes never admit defeat." If the President is running scared, it doesn't show. Vladimir Konoplev, a prominent Lukashenka ally, says he hasn't even heard of Milinkevich: "The name doesn't ring any bells." Some opposition activists fear that the 58-year-old physicist will be overlooked by voters, too. Pollsters say 25% of the electorate will support Lukashenka; another 20% are leaning toward him. Yet that may not stop Lukashenka from staging what the U.S. State Department calls "manipulated elections" and "judicial and extrajudicial measures" to secure a victory. Lukashenka refutes such charges...
Glauber shares the prize with fellow American John L. Hall and German physicist Theodor W. Hänsch and will receive half of the $1.29 million prize...
...Federico Fellini [director of “8 ½”] is a hero. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi [Indian physicist who helped introduce transcendent meditation to the world] is a hero...
...have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan but I could not do anything at all to prevent that fateful decision." ALBERT EINSTEIN, in a recently discovered 1953 letter to Japanese philosopher Seiei Shinohara, responding to Shinohara's criticism of the renowned physicist's role in the development of nuclear weapons...