Charles Seife

Biography:

Charles Seife is a writer for Science magazine, where he covers physics and cosmology. He is the author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea and Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe. Prior to his involvement with science journalism, he was a mathematician. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and an MS from the Yale Mathematics Department. In addition, Charles attended Columbia Journalism School and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers.

Past Shows:

	CERN Experiments, Science & Fusion
	Wednesday September 10, 2008

Appearing for the first three hours, NYU Professor and science writer Charles Seife discussed the implications of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, as well as his forthcoming book Sun in a Bottle about fusion energy. Completed at a cost of $6 billion, the particle accelerator complex at CERN was built to a remarkable scale, with a 17-mile underground tunnel.There's a remote theoretical possibility very close to 0% that the upcoming experiment to recreate conditions around the time of the Big Bang could lead to havoc or the destruction of Earth, Seife commented. The LHC tests may reveal the presence of the Higgs boson, a heretofore theoretical particle, which could explain how mass and gravity work. A huge amount of energy has to be created in order to spot the particle, he explained. If the LHC creates a black hole, it may mean that we're reaching into another dimension-- something we've never had access to before, Seife noted, calling CERN the new fro ... More
Host: George Noory

	Science Talk with Charles Seife
	Saturday January 27, 2007

Author and associate professor at NYU, Charles Seife returned for a second consecutive weekend to discuss a variety of scientific and philosophical topics, including the beginning of the universe, immortality, genetic determinism, quantum computing, teleportation, and multiverses. ... More
Host: Art Bell

	Parallel Universes & Quantum Science
	Saturday January 20, 2007

Author and associate Professor at NYU, Charles Seife discussed parallel universes, black holes, and quantum mechanics and how the concepts of information are in and of themselves, physically shaping the Universe. ... More
Host: Art Bell

	Cosmology, Physics & Science
	Thursday June 15, 2006

Writer for Science Magazine, Charles Seife, probed the mind-boggling advances that are taking us to a new understanding of the universe. There's been a scientific revolution in cosmology in the last decade, he said, with the realization that 96% of the universe is not made up of atomic structure, but rather is composed of dark energy and dark matter-- which we know very little about. Yet, he uses the concept of "information theory" --the idea that every particle in the cosmos contains information-- to connect such disparate fields as quantum mechanics and relativity. One of the most intriguing scientific findings is that quantum objects can be in two places at the same time, which is illustrated by the paradoxical experiment known as Schrodinger's cat, he reported.He broached such topics as black holes, teleportation, and time travel. In a way, time travel has already been demonstrated, he said, detailing an experiment where a pulse of light actually exited a chamber b ... More
Host: George Noory

	Cosmological Theories
	Saturday February 5, 2005

Writer for Science Magazine, Charles Seife talked about dark energy, and the nature and end of the universe. Seife suggested we've reached a pivotal point where "the universe is losing it."According to Seife, physicists have proposed two possibilities for the end of the universe: 1) the universe will slow its expansion, then collapse in a "big crunch" or 2) the universe will continue to expand, pushed along by an anti-gravity force called dark energy. Eventually, dark energy could overcome the force of gravity and rip apart everything in the universe, Seife warned.Seife also discussed God, extra dimensions, parallel universes, as well as the Big Bang theory, which posits the universe sprang forth from an explosion that hurled matter in all directions. The existence and density of cosmic background radiation, Seife explained, is evidence that the Big Bang really happened. He said some scientists think the universe was created when two parallel "membranes" collided, sugge ... More
Host: Art Bell