physics

Inside Chernobyl: A Legacy of Ruin

Apr 26, 2016
Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer was the first American journalist to enter the surviving power plant in the former Soviet Union On the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, he recounts his experience in a Los Angeles Times column first published on April 9, 1987 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer was the first American journalist to enter the surviving power plant in the former Soviet Union.
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Black Hole

Jun 20, 2015
Black holes have been posited as the basis of time machines, gateways to other universes and the seeds from which baby universes are born. Yet the new book "Black Hole" shows that at every step in its intellectual history, the concept of black holes has been resisted tooth and nail by physicists.

Speed of Light Upset May Be Result of Loose Wire

Feb 23, 2012
Remember the announcement that shocked the physics world last September? Scientists claimed to have measured a neutrino traveling faster than the speed of light -- a feat that would have undone Einstein, if, that is, the measurement proves not to have been the result of a bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer, as researchers now suspect.

Stephen Hawking Says Creation Was Godless, Inevitable

Sep 2, 2010
In his new book, the famed physicist dismisses the notion, sometimes peddled by scientists, that a deity was involved with the big bang: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going".