In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.