Last December, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the experimental confirmation of a quantum phenomenon known for more than 80 years: entanglement. As conceived by Albert Einstein and his collaborators in 1935, quantum objects can be mysteriously related even if they are separated by great distances. But as bizarre as the phenomenon sounds, … Read more
Maria Bon Cranor was like a stone that fell into a pond – it might have slipped its way out of Valhalla or landed on Half Dome. And the ripples that come out of it are the people whose lives have been changed. Cranor moved to Salt Lake with small climbing start-up Black Diamond Equipment … Read more
But let’s be honest: most people, even in the middle damage zone, won’t survive. Hardly anyone lives or works in reinforced concrete buildings with almost no windows, nor near a concrete basement. (Even the people in the bank would have to go into the vault to be in the safest place; the people in the … Read more
Cosmologists have spent For decades you’ve struggled to understand why the universe is so amazing. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we can see, but it’s also expanding at an ever-increasingly slow pace, when naive calculations suggest that – out of the Big Bang – space should have been gravitationally collapsed … Read more
Black holes are natural time machines that allow travel to the past and the future. But don’t expect to be back to visit dinosaurs anytime soon. Right now, we don’t have a spacecraft that can bring us anywhere near a black hole. But even leaving those small details aside, trying to travel into the past … Read more
