Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.