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Lawrence Krauss Versus Freeman Dyson on Gravitons - Facts So Romantic
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Yesterday, in the New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson analyzed a trio of recent books on humanity’s future in the larger cosmos. They were How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Space Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight; Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets; and All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life. Dyson is “a brilliant physicist and contrarian,” as the theoretical astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss recently told Nautilus. So I was waiting, as I read his review, to come across his profound and provocative pronouncement about these books, and it came soon enough: “None of them looks at space as a transforming force in the destiny of our species,” he writes. The books are limited in scope by looking at the future of space as a (...)

Ingenious : Lawrence M. Krauss - Issue 29 : Scaling
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Lawrence Krauss is a rare animal.He is a physicist with landmark results under his belt, including the prediction that most of the universe’s energy is stored in free space. He is the author of nine popular books (soon to be 10), including the best-selling The Physics of Star Trek (where I learned that the Enterprise would need to burn 81 times its entire mass in fuel to accelerate to half light-speed). Krauss is also not one to mince words. Whether it’s on the topic of philosophy (“physics needs philosophy but not philosophers”) or religion (he ran an article in The New Yorker last month with the title “All scientists should be militant atheists”), he is outspoken and occasionally controversial. That he enjoys a direct or irreverent comment clearly comes through in conversation. But more (...)

Lawrence Krauss : Nature’s Imagination
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