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...left running longer than they are in a mouse--so that our bodies grow bigger, our brain cells more numerous and so on. "It's not as if a new kind of brain cell were invented 150 million years ago [when mice and men diverged]," says Robert Weinberg, a professor at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. "The arguments will be settled only 10 or 20 years from...
...playing the same bass line, four or five rhythm guitarists strumming away, two pianists playing the same chords in different registers, percussionists plugging away on maracas and castanets, a full symphony string section, and underneath it all the drums of Hal Blaine ("my five favorite drummers", according to Max Weinberg) piped through the galactic dimensions of the Gold Star Studios echo chamber...
...think you'll be pleased by the lineup of scientists who agreed to write for this issue, including Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson, Steven Weinberg and Steven Pinker. "I usually have to cajole scientists of this caliber to take time off to do articles for us, but this time they all quickly said yes," says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who oversaw the package. "I chalk it up to what I call the POC effect, which means that by naming Albert Einstein Person of the Century, we underscored how serious TIME is about covering science and the ways that science shapes...
...based on common sense, Paul, and on science itself. As science advances, it imposes limits on its own power. Relativity theory prohibits faster-than-light travel or communication. Quantum mechanics and chaos theory constrain our predictive abilities. Science's limits are glaringly obvious in particle physics, which, as Steven Weinberg describes [in the Visions issue], seeks a "theory of everything" that will explain the origin of matter, energy and even space and time. The leading theory postulates that reality arises from infinitesimal "strings" wriggling in a hyperspace of 10 (or more) dimensions. Unfortunately, these hypothetical strings are so small that...
Other than the second coming of Harry Truman, the best thing that could happen to the U.S. would be the election of McCain. He alone of the candidates has demonstrated the moral courage and integrity to lead this country. HOWARD WEINBERG Weirton, W.Va...