Avi LoebHow the Light Gets In: The Interstellar Expedition Paper Was Accepted for Publication in the…It took our team a full year to plan the expedition to the fireball site of the interstellar meteor IM1 in the Pacific Ocean. The location…1d ago41d ago4
Avi LoebWhat if Aliens Are Not Vegetarians?Last night, I participated in a panel discussion at Harvard University, moderated by the guru Deepak Chopra, in the company of the…1d ago51d ago5
Avi LoebSimulation Creators Live in a Reality Bigger Than Their ImaginationFor the past century, physicists derived a better understanding of the physical reality in terms of the relativity of space and time, the…3d ago83d ago8
Avi LoebI think, therefore I understand why I existThe philosopher René Descartes published in 1637 his first philosophical principle which in Latin reads “cogito, ergo sum,” meaning “I…3d ago83d ago8
Avi LoebBaking Spherules from a MeteorThe recipe for baking a cake does not involve only the ingredients. It also includes a prescription for how much heat to supply and for how…5d ago35d ago3
Avi LoebWhat is the Largest Acceleration in the Universe?Fighter-jet pilots can survive an acceleration ten times larger than the gravitational acceleration on the surface of Earth, 10 g…6d ago46d ago4
Avi LoebThe Limits of What We Can SeeThe academic year just started at Harvard University. As I entered the classroom, it was humming with many new students. The class I teach…Sep 104Sep 104
Avi LoebA Black Hole AtomThe event horizon of a black hole with a mass of half a billion tons, similar to the mass of a kilometer-size asteroid, has the radius of a…Sep 810Sep 810
Avi LoebDiscovery of an Earth-Mass Planet Near a White DwarfThe lifespan of the Sun is 12.3 billion years. This is 1.5 billion years shorter than the age of the Universe, 13.8 billion years. If the…Sep 74Sep 74
Avi LoebFrom`Star Wars’ to Coexistence Under the StarsThe nostalgic new film `Reagan’ brought tears to my eyes by portraying the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a proposed missile defense…Sep 61Sep 61
