Many of you may know that Discover is not only a web site thathosts adiverse collection of entertaining blogs, but also publishes amonthly“magazine” printed on paper. Wild, right? Just ask this baby, who cantell youthat a magazine is kind of broken when compared to an iPad…. Read More»

When physicists are asked about “parallel worlds” or ideas along thoselines,they have to be careful to distinguish among different interpretationsof thatidea. There is the “multiverse” of inflationary cosmology, the “manyworlds” or“branches of the wave function” of quantum mechanics, and “parallelbranes” ofstring theory. Increasingly, however, people are wondering whetherthe first twoconcep… [...]

Brian Greene was on the Colbert Report the other day, promoting his new bookThe Hidden Reality. Little did he know (one presumes) how much hewasendangering the moral fiber of today’s youth. TheColbert Report Mon –Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Brian Greene www.colbertnation.com… Read More »

It’s a big universe out there — maybe bigger that we think. A lot ofpeoplethese days are contemplating the possibility that the wider world isn’tjustmore of the same; it could be that there are regions very different fromours,even with different low-energy laws of physics, outside ourobservableuniverse. It’s an old idea, which [...]