“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man,” said David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th century. A subject extensively studied by philosophers, mathematicians, and more recently, physicists and cosmologists, infinity still stands as an enigma of the intellectual world.
What happens when a simple mistake becomes a huge scientific discovery? You end up with a substance 100x stronger than a man of steel!
Enjoy Brian Greene’s thought-provoking conversation with Yale physics and astronomy professor Priyamvada Natarajan’s. Priyamvada’s latest research sheds new light on dark matter, with the potential to upend the whole dark …
Brian Greene engages physicist and former LIGO spokesperson Gabriela González in a conversation about LIGO and Virgo’s new announcement of the most massive gravitational wave source to date and discusses …
Bestselling author Benjamin Labatut joins Brian Greene for an exploration of the extremes of the human mind, centering on one of its most extraordinary incarnations—polymath John von Neumann–delving into existential …
The mysteries of dark matter and dark energy may be evidence that we don’t fully understand the force of gravity. But when it comes to a force that has been studied mathematically and probed observationally for hundreds of years, what do we still need to learn?