The Frank Wilczek Web Site
Welcome to my world -- and your world too!
- > Core
- The basic rules of the physical universe.
- > Unification
- Unity at the root of reality? Visions with consequences.
- > Cosmos
- Macrocosmos to microcosmos; the universe in a drop of wine.
- > Matter
- Putting quantum reality to work.
- > The Lightness of Being
- About the book, and more.
- > Resources/Contact
- About me and what I'm up to.
Near Future
Arizona State University, Jan. 21, 2010
The Beyond Annual Lecture at ASU's Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, "What is space?"
Berkeley, March 1, 2010
Oppenheimer Lecture for a general audience, "Anticipating a New Golden Age."
Recent Past
British publication of Lightness of Being
Year-end 2009 review in the Guardian: "The year's most daring and thought-provoking science book was The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers by Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek (Allen Lane, £18.99), a virtuosic tour of cutting-edge physics."
NY Times interview Dec. 29, 2009
Claudia Dreifus, author of Scientific Conversations knows how to ask scientists interesting questions.
Hermann Weyl classic reissued
Weyl's Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science was re-issued in May, 2009 by Princeton University Press. You can see my own taken-to-college and much-used-since paperback here -- I was honored and inspired to write an introduction for the PUP version.
Good reviews still coming in.
Thanks to Seed, Scientific American, The Economist, USA Today,
Natural History, >Sigma Xi, and to the book buyers who said good things about it on Amazon.