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Paul Halpern

Paul Halpern

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Sep 4, 2021

Top 10 Fun Facts about George Gamow

Some are well-known; others are surprising

Top 10 Fun Facts about George Gamow

Paul Halpern

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Aug 5, 2021

The Horror Film That Spawned a Universe

How The Dead of Night Helped Inspire Three Astrophysicists to Rethink Reality

The Horror Film That Spawned a Universe

Paul Halpern

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Jul 28, 2021

Dennis Sciama’s Astonishing Cosmological Conversion

From Steady-State Devotee to Leading Advocate for the Big Bang

Dennis Sciama’s Astonishing Cosmological Conversion

Paul Halpern

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Jul 25, 2021

Dyson, Feynman, Von Neumann, and the Dreaded “Warmed-Up Soup”

Renowned physicist Freeman Dyson’s wholly unwarranted fear of being boring

Dyson, Feynman, Von Neumann, and the Dreaded “Warmed-Up Soup”

Paul Halpern

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Jun 8, 2021

An American in Bingley

On the Trail of Astrophysicist and Writer Fred Hoyle

An American in Bingley

Paul Halpern

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Feb 7, 2021

The Big Bang in an Underground Lab

An exclusive interview with Italian nuclear physicist Viviana Mossa about her team’s astonishing new deuterium-burning results

The Big Bang in an Underground Lab

Paul Halpern

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Aug 30, 2020

Einstein and the Mentalists

From eerie encounters with purported psychics to “spooky action at a distance.”

Einstein and the Mentalists

Paul Halpern

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Aug 28, 2020

Genius in Exile: The Rise and Fall of Göttingen’s Mathematical Institute

Inspired by the designs of mathematician Felix Klein and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Göttingen Mathematical Institute in…

Genius in Exile: The Rise and Fall of Göttingen’s Mathematical Institute

Paul Halpern

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Aug 23, 2020

A Quantum of Insults

Nobel laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a penchant for hurling evil zingers at other scientists

A Quantum of Insults

Paul Halpern

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Aug 21, 2020

Chance Encounters with a Mystic, Gnostic Muse

Serendipitous discussions in a coffee shop with Jungian scholar Kathleen Damiani about Neoplatonism, David Bohm, and other topics

Chance Encounters with a Mystic, Gnostic Muse

Paul Halpern

Paul Halpern

Physicist and science writer. Author of Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect

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