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There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it...

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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outsid...

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I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whethe...

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Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How...

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Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? A...

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At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade educ...

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Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a...

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Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a...

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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century...

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Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to expl...

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Leonard Susskind

Professor

Born: 1940-01-01

Died: N/A

Leonard Susskind (born January 1, 1940) is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.More