One of the examples I used for how quantum physics shows up in an ordinary morning was my alarm clock, which ultimately traces its time back to the definition of one second as 9,192,631,770 ...

We are creatures of time, so we think the universe is all about time. And that may be the wrong way to look at the universe. We have to keep in mind what you said earlier.

If Isaac Newton suddenly popped out of a time machine, he’d be delighted to see how far physics had come. Things that were deeply mysterious a few centuries ago are now taught in freshman ...

The key to understanding why life is not explainable in current physics may be to reconsider our notions of time and information. Life: modern physics can’t explain it – but our new theory ...

When we do these big things nowadays, we do them together. If we continue to dream big and work together, even more amazing things lie ahead. Dennis Overbye joined The Times in 1998, and has been ...