Kenneth Silber: May 2003 Archives
Gvdel, Einstein, Bomb
The year is 1946, more or less. The place is Princeton, New Jersey. At the Institute for Advanced Studies, top scientists and mathematicians - Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer, among others - are contemplating the nature...
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Deeper Impact
In his excellent 1999 book "Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia," Gregory Benford, a physicist, author and TCS contributor, wrote about two ways of transmitting information to the future. One is what Benford called "High Church"; it involved effor
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Doomsday Trippers
Martin Rees is a cosmologist at Cambridge University and holder of the honorary position of England's Astronomer Royal. He has written several books that focus on the universe at the largest known scales of space and time. His latest book...
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Has Science Found God?
What does science tell us (or not tell us) about God? This question has received stepped-up attention in recent years. There have been numerous articles reporting growing connections between science and religion. ("Science Finds God," Newsweek announced on its...
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