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| String Theory | |
| String Theory
and M Theory Duality XV What are all those duality relationships between string theories and M theory? |
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| String Physics
XXVII Here's another new page for talking about string theory. |
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| Supersymmetry
V What's so super about supersymmetry? |
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| Extra Dimensions
XIII What happens to physics when the dimensionality of spacetime is not equal to the four we know and usually love? |
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| The Elegant Universe
V Tell us what you think of The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. |
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| Mathematics | |
| Topology IV Get a handle on topology here and bring out your inner genus. |
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| Geometry III
Curvature, metrics, connections, oh my! |
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| Particle Physics and Relativity | |
| The Works of Stephen Hawking
II From The Universe in a Nutshell to The Large Scale Structure of Space-time, here is a place to discuss the many works of Hawking. |
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| Relativity XXI The Special and the General. |
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| Black Holes XIII Is there one in the center of every galaxy? |
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| Cosmology XIX Here's some extra space for the continuing discourse over the ultimate origin of all we observe. |
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| Time and Causality
XI Time travel, worm holes, violations of causality: speculative nonsense, or the physics of the future? |
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| Particle Physics
XXII Quarks? Gluons? Grand Unified Theories? What is a photon? Discuss it here. |
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| Hot Topics | |
| Science and Society VI What is the proper relationship between science and society? George Soros has written that there is an inherent conflict between an open society and a scientific society. What did he mean? Is he right or wrong? |
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| Global Warming
III Humankind is altering the global climate. What's going to happen to the world, and how can we prevent it? |
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| The Future
IX What is coming? |
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| Philosophy of
Physics XXIII What is reality, what is matter, what is time, what is measurement? All of those perplexing questions -- feel free to ponder them here. |
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| Mystics and Metaphysics
XIX Kepler was a mystic, Newton was drawn to alchemy. Modern physics belongs to materialists, but will the pendulum swing back some day? |
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| Science and Religion
XX What is this conflict about, and why is it so important to people? Of what significance is the story of Galileo and the Pope? Was this about a fundamental conflict of importance to all human civilization, or was it unique to the culture and period in which it happened? |
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| Albert Einstein
IV Time's Person of the Century is Albert Einstein. Do you agree with this decision? Discuss the legacy of Einstein here |
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| Other Topics | |
| Basic Physics
III Physics education reform - what do you think? |
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| Questions VII Have a question about physics? |
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