Science & Medicine
A physicist from UC Santa Barbara has taken what scientists are calling a major step toward finding a long-sought unified theory of nature.
June 13, 1995
Movies
Hey, He Only Imported the Theory
June 30, 1996
Some major experiments planned for the next few years may finally provide evidence that revolutionary new ideas about the universe, such as string theory, are valid. Or not.
Dec. 9, 1999
Television
There are a lot of TV shows on the air right now that encourage fan theories.
Feb. 19, 2015
Research: When others bailed out, Caltech professor stuck by string theory, now firmly in mainstream of physics.
Nov. 17, 1999
The Galileo spacecraft cruised the solar system for six years before it got to Jupiter--a distance of 2.3 billion miles.
March 7, 1996
Entertainment & Arts
THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory; By Brian Greene; (W.W. Norton: 448 pp., $27.95)
March 7, 1999
It’s simplistic to think of “The Theory of Everything,” which traces many years of Stephen Hawking’s life, as one of those typical scratch-the-surface movies about the man.
Nov. 26, 2014
The field that made scientist Stephen Hawking an international celebrity may be physics, but the reason “The Theory of Everything” is emotionally effective as an examination of his life and thought comes down to chemistry, the interconnected performances of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.
Nov. 6, 2014
Quantum physics and theoretical cosmology aren’t generally the stuff of romance, but the Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything” could prove an exception.
Aug. 6, 2014