Holographic Universe The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity theories which resolves the black hole information paradox within string theory. First proposed by Gerard 't Hooft, it ...

As modern physics has developed a better understanding of how the universe operates at its most fundamental levels, one thing has become increasingly clear: we're damned lucky to be here at all. The ...

Jonathan Kirsch, a contributing writer for Book Review, is the author of the forthcoming "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western ...

LEONARD SUSSKIND is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, a ...

After abandoning family plans to go into the heating business, he went on to become a founder of string theory. Now Leonard Susskind is teaching physics to people in their 90s. He talks to Anil ...

Susskind and Friedman follow their collaboration on Quantum Mechanics by probing the mathematical nitty-gritty of field theory and Einstein’s theory of special relativity in the third installment of ...