Leonard Susskind

Sunday in Pictures

Here are a few images from Sunday’s World Science Festival events.

Beyond Einstein

String theory pioneer Leonard Susskind, historian of science Peter Galison, and moderator (and Nobel Laureate in medicine) Paul Nurse in Beyond Einstein: In Search of the Ultimate Explanation. (Image: Getty Images)read more

Read all about it, Sunday edition

Here are blog entries that describe some of Sunday’s World Science Festival events:read more

Science Fun Fact #4

Relax. There may be a parallel universe in which you caught that bus

Relax. There may be a parallel universe...

While parallel universes sound like science fiction, they are in fact a — speculative — part of physics, and that in more than one place: quantum mechanics, our current (and incredibly precise) description of atoms and elementary particles, gives tantalizing hints of an infinity of parallel worlds. And string theory, one of the candidate theories for a unified description of physics, suggests an other kind of “landscape” of parallel universes, some that are similar to ours, and others that are mind-bogglingly different.read more