Sidney Perkowitz
Sidney Perkowitz is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University. His latest books are A Short Introduction to Physics, Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties, and Science Sketches: the Universe from Different Angles.
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What You’re Doing Right Now Is Proof of Quantum Theory
Running a computer underscores how quantum physics is remaking our world.
November 24, 2021
This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Director Christopher Nolan could take a tip from new research into “closed timelike curves.”
March 24, 2021
A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature
What this year’s Nobel-winning discovery of the black hole at our galaxy’s center reveals.
November 25, 2020
Only Disconnect! A Pandemic Reading of E.M. Forster
The astonishing relevance of the British writer’s story, “The Machine Stops.”
March 25, 2020
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
November 27, 2019

