by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
Look up from the screen right now and scan the room around you, directing your gaze at one object, then another, then another. As you focus on each object, imagine what that object would feel like on your tongue if you licked it.* My guess is that you have a very,...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Present
Throughout history, speculation has spurred beautiful, revolutionary science — opening our eyes to entirely new universes. “I’m not talking about science that takes baby steps,” says Eric Haseltine. “I’m talking about science that...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg observed, “The universe is not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we can think.” Heisenberg knew what he was talking about. The quantum world that he helped discover is totally bizarre. In the quantum world...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Present
Once, human flight was impossible. Instant communication anywhere, anytime was impossible. Leaving Earth was impossible. Seeing farther than the naked eye was impossible. Scientific revolutions have turned a long list of impossibilities into everyday realities. And...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Past
The chances were 1 in a million (give or take) that we would ever have the convenient appliance of a microwave oven in our kitchens. One day toward the end of the Second World War, a forgetful scientist walked into a room where he and other physicists were testing...