Paul Halpern

The Allure of the Multiverse An extraordinary voyage into the history of how parallel universes, higher dimensions and time travel have captivated us in imaginative books, films, and series, while stirring raging controversy in science. Now available: amazon.com/Allure-Multive……

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.. upon whose well-being our own happiness depends -Albert Einstein

The United States and Denmark have a lasting friendship, akin to the harmonious relationship between music and science. 🇺🇸🇩🇰🎺🎶⚛️ Pictured: American jazz musician Louis Armstrong and Danish quantum physicist Niels Bohr.

Wolfgang Pauli believed in the power of symmetry, as applied to the particle world. He was genuinely shocked when Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally demonstrated that parity (mirror-image symmetry) is violated in certain types of particle decay involving the weak interaction #histSTM

When Niels Bohr fled Nazi-occupied Denmark in a fishing boat to Sweden, and then in a high-altitude plane to England, he clutched what he thought was a precious vial of heavy water used to moderate nuclear reactions. In his haste, however, he had brought a bottle of beer instead.

'I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.' -Albert Einstein commentary.org/articles/c-sno…

'To do ... good physics work you do need absolutely solid lengths of time ... If you've got a job in administrating anything ... you don't have ... time. So I have invented another myth for myself—that I'm irresponsible. I tell everybody, I don't do anything.' -Richard Feynman

'About your cat, Mr. Schrödinger — I have good news and bad news.' (Benjamin Schwartz, New Yorker)

'This is my chair. No other kids allowed!' 😠 Envisioning how Wolfgang Pauli, at the age of 2 years and 8 months, might have been anticipating his Nobel-Prize-winning Exclusion Principle. Photo: Pauli Archive, CERN cds.cern.ch/record/42981

'It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few individuals for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate...' -Albert Einstein

On a warm summer day it is always delightful to head to the coastal villages of Long Island and join Albert Einstein for tea and conversation on the porch of his house. Presuming it is the year 1937, that is...

Albert Einstein's lonely road to unifying the forces of nature. By rejecting quantum 'dice-rolling,' and essentially ignoring the nuclear and particle physics discoveries of the mid-20th century, he ventured down his own isolated path.

Wolfgang Pauli believed in the power of symmetry, as applied to the particle world. He was genuinely shocked when Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally demonstrated that parity (mirror-image symmetry) is violated in certain types of particle decay involving the weak interaction #histSTM

To us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future has only the significance of a stubborn illusion.' -Albert Einstein

'We have to admire in humility the beautiful harmony of the structure of this world—as far as we can grasp it. And that is all.' -Albert Einstein (Letter to Ensign Guy H. Raner, Jr., July 1945)

Two titans of quantum field theory: Richard Feynman and Chen Ning Yang Feynman died on Feb. 15, 1988 at the age of 69. Yang is 102 years old and currently the Honorary Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. web.archive.org/web/2008041701…

Paul is one of the finest writers on science - particularly physics - and has a fine skill in explaining technical concepts that anyone can understand. Do take a look at some of his books! They are great

'I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.' -Albert Einstein