Paul
Paul Halpern
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Science Writer and Professor
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48 years old
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States
Last Login: 11/28/2009
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| General | Reading, writing, travelling, hiking | | Music | Kinks, Blur, Talking Heads, The Jam, Suzanne Vega, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Belle and Sebastian, Midnight Oil, The Cure, Depeche Mode, World Party | | Movies | Films by Chaplin, Fellini, Kubrick, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen and many others | | Television | The Simpsons, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Monty Python
| | Books | Books by Bradbury, Borges, Calvino, Eco, Poe, Le Guin, Dickens, Wells, Orwell, Hesse, Kundera and many others | | Heroes | Einstein, Mandela, Gandhi, King |
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Paul's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Philadelphia | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Science Writer and Professor |
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Paul is excited about the Large Hadron Collider starting up again! Posted at 6:32 PM Nov 19
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Cross the Streams with Collider!
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The Art and Science of Photography
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An Extraordinary Era for Science
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Speaking at the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention
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Walking to the North Pole
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About me:
I enjoy writing books about contemporary topics in science from extrasolar planets to higher dimensions. I've written 12 books to date, including Time Journeys, Cosmic Wormholes, The Cyclical Serpent, Countdown to Apocalypse, The Pursuit of Destiny, The Great Beyond, Faraway Worlds, Brave New Universe, and What's Science Ever Done For Us? What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe, a fun look at science on the Simpsons.
My latest book, Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles, explores the quest for the building blocks of the universe using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other accelerators.
Could there be a single energetic field, nicknamed "The God Particle," that bestows mass upon everything else in the universe? Do the particles in the universe have mirror images, called supersymmetric companions? Might space have unseen dimensions into which the agents of gravity can stealthily disappear? Will mini-black-holes be produced in the LHC's energetic collisions? Why did the Superconducting Super Collider (SCC) suddenly get cancelled and what were the repercussions of that decision?
Collider investigates these fascinating questions and more, offering the background behind humanity's search for the most fundamental components of the cosmos.
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