Paul Halpern

Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at Saint Joseph’s University and the author of eighteen popular science books, including Flashes of Creation, The Quantum Labyrinth, Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's Cat, and Synchronicity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

The Physics of Fiction: How Art and Science Inspire Each Other

Paul Halpern on Literary Representations of Black Holes, Wormholes, and Multiple Dimensions

February 9, 2024 By Paul Halpern

The Great Cosmological Debate of the Twentieth Century

Paul Halpern on What It Took to Confirm the Big Bang Theory

August 20, 2021 By Paul Halpern

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