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 ...

He probably won’t like me for saying this, but Leonard Susskind of Stanford University looks a bit like Charles Darwin. The reason I know is that Susskind – one of the father figures of string theory ...

Theoretical physicists are as big a bunch of atheists as you would care to meet. So why are they always going on about God? “God does not play dice,’’ declared Albert Einstein. “We should know the ...

The big thing that needs unifying, in everyone's view, is to tie the force of gravity in with the other fundamental forces. Galison suggested that this is more challenging than it appears, noting the ...

Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University in 1978, where he continues to work as a Professor of Physics.

Explore the Cosmic Landscape in String Theory as Susskind navigates the Anthropic Principle in Physics. Discover the implications in detail. Susskind believes that it is more than dumb luck that the ...

Some celestial bodies are so cold that methane freezes; others are so hot that nuclear reactions occur. And then there's Earth, with a benign temperature hovering in the narrow range between freezing ...

Considered volume II in Susskind’s “Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics” series (volume I covered classical mechanics), the authors offer highly motivated readers an ...

Readers ready to embrace their inner applied mathematician will enjoy this brisk, bare-bones introduction to classical mechanics drawn from Stanford University’s “Continuing Studies” program. Although ...