BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Brian Greene, physicist and groundbreaking string theorist, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus as the next speaker in UB's Distinguished ...

"There was a time when ‘universe' meant ‘all there is,' " writes Greene, but soon we may have to redefine that word, along with our own meager understanding of the cosmos. A theoretical physicist and ...

pt. 1. edge of knowledge -- ch. 1. Tied up with string -- pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- ch. 3. Of warps and ripples -- ch. 4.

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Our universe may be fundamentally unstable. In a flash, the vacuum of space-time may find a new ground state, triggering a cataclysmic transformation of the physics of the universe. Or not. A new ...

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I know there are more than a few theoretical physics geeks (and pros) here. I can't find details on their site, but I was listening to NPR on my way back to work. Apparently tomorrow's Science Friday ...

There is a relatively simple solution to the question of dark matter – the unseen mass thought to be exerting an additional gravitational effect on galaxies(11 February, p 46). In his book The Elegant ...