Third Thoughts: The Universe We Still Don’t Know“The phrase ‘public intellectual’ is much bandied about. Just a few real heavyweights in the world merit the title, and Steven Weinberg is preeminent among them.” |
Contents
From Rutherford to the | |
Educators and Academics Underground in Texas | |
The Rise of the Standard Models | |
Long Times and Short Times | |
The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics | |
PUBLIC MATTERS | |
Obama Gets Space Funding Right | |
The Crisis of Big Science | |
Liberal Disappointment | |
Keep Loopholes Open | |
Against Manned Space Flight | |
Skeptics and Scientists | |
Keeping an Eye on the PresentWhig History of Science | |
An Exchange | |
PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY | |
What Is an Elementary Particle? | |
The Universe We Still Dont Know | |
Varieties of Symmetry | |
The Higgs and Beyond | |
Why the Higgs? | |