Pale Fires at the Edge of Everything
JWST keeps finding massive, fully formed galaxies in an era when the universe was too young to have built them. The Lambda-CDM standard model is under pressure — and the data is only getting sharper.

JWST keeps finding massive, fully formed galaxies in an era when the universe was too young to have built them. The Lambda-CDM standard model is under pressure — and the data is only getting sharper.

A review of Corey Powell’s God in the Equation — the book that traces how cosmology, dark energy, and Einstein’s Lambda became the foundation of a new secular religion.

A review of Lawrence Krauss’s Atom — the biography of an oxygen atom from the Big Bang to life on Earth, and what it means that science, not religion, tells us who we are.

A Universe That Refuses to Behave Sixty years ago, a Harvard-trained physicist named Thomas Kuhn…

Published: 1999 | Author: Martin Rees | Category: Book Reviews, Science | Pages: 208 Six…

Physicists are not generally a mystical lot. They spend their careers dismantling wonder into equations,…