Avi LoebThe Inefficiency of LifeDuring an inspiring WORLD.MINDS dinner, I asked my Harvard colleague and friend, the psychologist Daniel Gilbert, who was sitting next to…6h ago16h ago1
Avi LoebCommissioning Data on Half a Million Objects in the Sky from the Galileo Project Observatory: Are…After 3.5 years of planning, hardware assembly, data collection and analysis, the Galileo Project (GP) under my leadership released the…12h ago12h ago
Avi LoebEverything Everywhere All at Once About the UniverseBelow is the transcript of a wide-ranging interview I had before sunrise this morning.1d ago11d ago1
Avi LoebAvi Loeb’s Statement on UAPs to the House Oversight and Accountability CommitteeOver the past few months, I was asked multiple times by Staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability whether I am available…2d ago112d ago11
Avi LoebThe Nature of Dark EnergyThe brilliant 87-year-old astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker, called me on zoom today to ask: “What is dark energy?” He had been troubled by…2d ago32d ago3
Avi LoebThe Mass of LightIn empty space, a particle of light — the photon, is massless. Hence, a free photon propagates at the limiting speed of light.4d ago74d ago7
Avi LoebCould UAP Save Us from Ourselves?Today, I hosted two academic professionals, Andrew Simmons from Washington DC and Lourdes German from Cambridge MA, who confessed that they…5d ago95d ago9
Avi LoebDown-To-Earth Benefits of AstrophysicsIn my latest class at the Harvard Astronomy department, I noted that what happens in stars was not always beneficial for promoting…Nov 55Nov 55
Avi LoebThe Particle Accelerator at the Center of the Milky-WayThere is a particle accelerator at the center of our Milky-Way galaxy which radiates photon energies at least ten times larger than the…Nov 42Nov 42
Avi LoebTightening the Upper Limit on the Graviton MassIn Einstein’s General Relativity, gravitational interactions are mediated by a massless particle, the graviton. However, there is a general…Nov 23Nov 23