Topic: Ask Brian Greene

• Brian Greene Reacts to Today’s CERN Announcement

  Earlier this morning, CERN made a much-anticipated announcement about its progress in finding the elusive Higgs particle. Here, Brian Greene explains the significance of the news.

• Please Stand by for a Reaction on the Higgs Boson Announcement from Brian Greene

  You may have heard that this morning (Tuesday, AM) there was an announcement from researchers at the Large Hadron Collider.

• Ask Brian Greene: Our Accelerating Universe

  What is your hypothesis on the future of the universe since it continues to expand at a fast rate?

• Ask Brian Greene: How the Universe Becomes Disordered

  How do ordered things like life arise in a universe that is steadily becoming more disordered?

• Ask Brian Greene: A Clarification about Death

  But what do you really think happens to you/your consciousness after you die?

• Ask Brian Greene: What Happens to Past and Future Me?

  If the past, present and future are equally real, what happens when we die—in this picture, would our consciousness still exist in some sense?

• Series Finale of NOVA’s Fabric of the Cosmos

  The fourth and final episode of NOVA's Fabric of the Cosmos airs tonight on PBS, at 9PM ET/PT.

• Ask Brian Greene: Conservation of Mass in Black Holes

  When something falls into a black hole, where does its mass go?

• Ask Brian Greene: What Does Today’s Neutrino Update Tell Us?

  So what's with today's announcement that more refined measurements are still showing neutrinos going faster than light?

• Ask Brian Greene: Wormholes, Time Travel, and Causality

  If you traveled through a wormhole to an earlier time, would your presence create a "new" version of that earlier time or would it be the "original" version of that time?

• Ask Brian Greene Will Resume Tomorrow

  Our sincere apologies about the quietness of the Ask Brian Greene series the last couple of days. Brian has been away, lecturing in Abu Dhabi, and he's been unable to keep up with all your great questions while traveling. But he's back and ready to take a stab at them. The...

• Ask Brian Greene: What Exactly Is the Universe Expanding Into?

  If space is everything around us, what's outside of it?

• Ask Brian Greene: Why Study String Theory?

  Why are so many physicists chasing string theory when, after 30+ years, there is still no means of testing it?

• Ask Brian Greene: How Did You Become a Physicist?

  What was the driving force that made you who you are as a physicist?

• Ask Brian Greene: What Would Alternate Realities Be Like?

  Could there be different historical outcomes to events such as the Lincoln assassination or 9/11?

• Ask Brian Greene: Quantum Mechanics and String Theory

  How does the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics manifest itself in string theory?

• Ask Brian Greene: How Fast Can Space Travel?

  If nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, then how did the universe become so big and vast in the blink of a micro-second during the big bang?