The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

There are not many professions where people routinely ask you to justify your work, but theoretical physics one of them. In the wake of the recent Nobel Prize to Peter Higgs and François Englert for ...

Is modern theoretical physics more than just solving word problems? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

A new gift establishes the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Princeton University, which is now the 9th member of the Leinweber Network for Theoretical Physics, ...

During their time in fundamental physics, they are educated at the highest existing technical level and then take their expertise into working companies. This is like educating car mechanics in ...

After abandoning family plans to go into the heating business, Leonard Susskind went on to become a founder of string theory. He is the director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics in ...

Great theories draw on the same creative roots as great poetry or fiction, but the constraints of fact add something unique THERE is a story called The Little Prince by the French writer Antoine de ...

Perimeter Institute began in the summer of 1999 when Mike Lazaridis, founder and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the successful BlackBerry, found himself in a position to help foster ...

A $18.4 million commitment from the Leinweber Foundation to the University of Chicago will support the creation of a new institute for theoretical physics at UChicago. The transformative gift will ...

A concept developed for computer science could have a key role in fundamental physics — and point the way to a new understanding of space and time. When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these ...