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HORGAN: My faith is based on common sense, Paul, and on science itself. As science advances, it imposes limits on its own power. Relativity theory prohibits faster-than-light travel or communication. Quantum mechanics and chaos theory constrain our predictive abilities. Science's limits are glaringly obvious in particle physics, which, as Steven Weinberg describes [in the Visions issue], seeks a "theory of everything" that will explain the origin of matter, energy and even space and time. The leading theory postulates that reality arises from infinitesimal "strings" wriggling in a hyperspace of 10 (or more) dimensions. Unfortunately, these hypothetical strings...
...humanity's most meaningful creation. We are here to figure out why we are here. The thought that this grand adventure of discovery might end haunts me. What would it be like to live in a world without the possibility of further revelations as profound as evolution or quantum mechanics? Not everyone finds this prospect disturbing. The science editor of the Economist once pointed out to me that if science does end, we will still have sex and beer. Maybe that's the right attitude, but there aren't any Nobels in it. No matter how far science does...
Professor of Physics Charles M. Marcus, who is known for his research in quantum mechanics, was recently tenured by the Physics Department...
...Charlie has made important advances to our knowledge of quantum chaos," said McKay Professor of Applied Physics Robert M. Westervelt, who was Marcus' Ph.D. research adviser at Harvard...
...odds were nearly as long as they had been for CVC. Video games, after all, were an established market. Who had ever heard of anyone using a PC, let alone cranking into a copper-wire phone system to talk with other computers? But Case saw at Quantum that the applications that really suckered the geeks (and you had to be a serious geek to own a Commodore 64) were the ones that let them chatter. And as Quantum added customers (and expanded to Apple users), it began to look as much like a communications company as a technology firm. Thousands...