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Physicist and Science Writer. Author of eighteen books, most recently The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes

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The Allure of the Multiverse. An extraordinary voyage into the history of how parallel universes, higher dimensions and time travel have captivated us in imaginative books, films, and series, while stirring raging controversy in science. Now available:.
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RT @RCScience: "In a new book titled “The Allure of the Multiverse,” physicist Paul Halpern traces why many theorists have come to believe….
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RT @phalpern: Interview about The Allure of the Multiverse.on The Avid Reader Show.
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RT @VanderburghBill: This is the world you’ll find me in today. Reading @phalpern’s The Allure of the Multiverse. #books #whatimreading….
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RT @phalpern: To us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future has only the significance of a stubborn illusio….
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RT @phalpern: Beatles and the Butterfly Effect. A little-noticed feature of Paul McCartney's 2018 video 'Who Cares?' is that his character….
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RT @phalpern: Summer images of renowned physicists, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (@AIP_Library): . George Uhlenbeck, Hendr….
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RT @phalpern: Extraordinary astronomer Edwin Hubble, one of the discoverers of evidence for the expansion of the universe, seated with his….
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RT @phalpern: Notable scientists attending the 1933 Solvay Conference in Brussels, Belgium included three highly accomplished women (from l….
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RT @phalpern: Great scientists meeting with the Dalai Lama, who celebrates his 90th birthday today. Carl Sagan.Werner Heisenberg.David Bo….
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Extraordinary astronomer Edwin Hubble, one of the discoverers of evidence for the expansion of the universe, seated with his cat Nicolas Copernicus, behind an armillary sphere and next to an orrery, March 1953. Huntington Library:. #histSTM
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RT @phalpern: 'We have to admire in humility the beautiful harmony of the structure of this world—as far as we can grasp it. And that is a….
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Summer images of renowned physicists, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (@AIP_Library): . George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, the Goudsmits, Emilio Segrè, Albert Einstein, Doug Morrison, Chris L Smith, Peterson, Richard Feynman and Don Perkins .
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Beatles and the Butterfly Effect. A little-noticed feature of Paul McCartney's 2018 video 'Who Cares?' is that his character is called 'Dr. Lorenz,' after meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the founder of chaos theory, and refers to chaotic order from disorder:.
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RT @phalpern: Quantum physics isn't always smooth sailing. But these guys made it look chill. Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, and Enric….
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Great scientists meeting with the Dalai Lama, who celebrates his 90th birthday today. Carl Sagan.Werner Heisenberg.David Bohm. #histSTM #DalaiLama #FreeTibet
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RT @phalpern: Wolfgang Pauli's hilarious response to Werner Heisenberg's claims on a radio show that, except for the details, he was close….
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RT @phalpern: In 1946, brilliant Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, acclaimed for her contributions to the understanding of nuclear fission a….
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RT @phalpern: Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether's struggles for women's rights at the University of Göttingen: . .
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In 1946, brilliant Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, acclaimed for her contributions to the understanding of nuclear fission and known for her opposition to its military use, met with finalists in the Science Talent Search competition for high school youth. (Smithsonian Archive)
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