A Glass of Beer Is an Unsolved Engineering Problem
Bartenders manage it by feel, but the physics behind a stable beer head — bubble nucleation, surfactant proteins, nitrogen versus CO2 — is still an active, only partly solved research problem.
God in the Equation by Corey S. Powell — When Science Stopped Denying It Had a God
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.
Occam’s Razor in the Age of String Theory: When Simplicity Fails in Theoretical Physics
Abstract Occam’s Razor — the principle that entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity —…
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein — A Review
Most books about difficult ideas are written by people who have spent years learning to…
Atom by Lawrence Krauss — You Are Made of Dead Stars, and That Should Change Everything
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.
The Boltzmann Brain Paradox: When Statistical Physics Predicts You Shouldn’t Exist
Ludwig Boltzmann never intended to erase reality. The Austrian physicist spent the second half of…
