Jon Cartwright speaks to Leonard Susskind about bringing a “theoretical minimum” of real physics to people all over the world through his online courses (Courtesy: Linda A Cicero/Stanford News Service ...

They’re generally not people like Leonard Susskind, a renowned physics professor at Stanford and a prime architect of string theory. His new book, his first for a general audience, has the provocative ...

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 ...

Physicists at the University of Maryland have mathematically proved a universal minimum time for quantum information to scramble through any system, linking it directly to temperature and entropy. The ...

Susskind, a physics professor at Stanford, and Cabannas, a former MIT math professor, offer an overview of Einstein’s theory of general relativity in this survey for specialists, the fourth volume of ...