Big Bang Archive

3 for Thursday: 3 Reactions to Bill Nye’s Creationism Comments

This last week, Bill Nye’s creationism comments for Big Think (see video above) drew some attention and criticism. Nye says that adults who want to live as creationists can do so, but it is “untenable” and “self-inconsistent” with everything we know about universe. The insistence upon creationism holds everybody back, he notes, and so he

3 for Thursday: 3 Minutephysics on Light

One of my favorite subscriptions on YouTube is MinutePhysics. Each video is an infusion of physics and short bursts of animation; it’s entertaining. Interested in learning about Einstein, neutrinos, or the Higgs Boson, but don’t have the time to do a lot of reading, this is one subscription you never want to miss. Below

Book Review: A Universe from Nothing

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss Free Press, 2011 224 pages (Kindle Ed.) Available Amazon Powells Lawrence Krauss’s A Universe from Nothing is long overdue for The Discarded Image. After all, the question of why there is something rather than nothing is at the heart