Paul Halpern
Professor of Physics, University of the Sciences
Paul Halpern is professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. A prolific science writer, his latest book is The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality (forthcoming, 2017). He lives near Philadelphia, PA.
Written by Paul Halpern
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Physics
Time after time
The question of whether time moves in a loop or a line has occupied human minds for millennia. Has physics found the answer?
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History of science
Spiritual hyperplane
How spiritualists of the 19th century forged a lasting association between higher dimensions and the occult world
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History of science
The cosmology of Poe
Drawing on intuition, Edgar Allan Poe offered some remarkably prescient ideas about the universe in his poem ‘Eureka’
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