Guest: David Kaiser, Ph.D.
In the 1970s, severe cutbacks in physics funding drove a group of eccentric scientists to take a different approach on their field, studying quantum entanglement alongside mind reading and Eastern mysticism. Today on Focus, our guest David Kaiser will explain how their work helped pave the way for numerous other breakthroughs in quantum mechanics.
Guests: Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams.
Today on Focus, cosmologist Joel R. Primack and his wife, author Nancy Ellen Abrams, join the show to discuss their new book, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. The book claims to reveal an astonishing truth: humans really are central to the universe.
Guest: Neil deGrasse Tyson.
How did the universe begin? It's a question that plagued scientists for centuries, and one that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores in his recent book Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. He joins us on Focus today to discuss the formation of the universe, as well as its galaxies, planets... and inhabitants.
Guest: Neil Comins.
One of the biggest paradoxes of modern science is that the more we discover about the natural world, the more we come to understand that our everyday perceptions of it are incorrect. Physicist Neil Comins joins Focus today to talk about his new book Heavenly Errors, in which he identifies numerous misconceptions about the universe and addresses the errors in these lines of thought.
