Harry Potter & Today’s Science Lesson
The physicist Brian Greene, whom I once interviewed for Interview magazine and who lives up the street from me in New York, has a new book, “The Hidden Reality,” that I look forward to reading. In the review of the tome in today’s New York Times, Janet Maslin singles out an idea that popped my eyeballs: “bubble universes appear finite from the inside but infinite from the outside.” Even more eyecatching was the video link in this paragraph, with Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe singing the Tom Lehrer song “The Elements.”
