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 —…
From Trenches to Atoms
The 5,000-acre stretch of pine barrens in Yaphank trained WWI draftees, then split atoms. A century of federal land use hidden in the Long Island woods.
Gould’s Spandrels vs. Collins’s Genome: The Hidden Long Island Thread in Evolution’s Most Consequential Modern Debate
Stephen Jay Gould argued much of biological form is architectural accident. Francis Collins argued the genome sings of a moral lawgiver. Cold Spring Harbor’s DNA runs through both.
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore — Where Dawkins Left Off, Blackmore Dares to Go Further
Dawkins handed us the word. Blackmore handed us the theory. That distinction matters more than…
The Long Island Accelerator and the Jesuit Astronomer: How Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Sparked a Debate With Vatican Observatory’s Guy Consolmagno That Most New Yorkers Missed
Beneath Long Island’s pine barrens, physicists smash gold atoms to recreate the Big Bang. A Jesuit astronomer named Brother Guy Consolmagno is the only one who publicly answered what that means for creation theology.
The Confession of Light: What Gravitational Waves Force Us to Admit About the Fabric of Reality
On September 14, 2015, LIGO detected a chirp lasting a fifth of a second. A century of theorizing became unbearable certainty. What did it cost the people who heard it?
