+ Popular Articles & Essays
Selection of newspaper and magazine articles, book
reviews, published interviews and web essays
- ‘Aliens under our noses,’ Scientific American, 12 December 2007, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=are-aliens-among-us
- Response to critics, Edge, 7 December 2007
- ‘Taking science on faith,’ New York Times, 24 November 2007
- ‘A fine tuned universe and other mysteries,’ in Star-Telegram.com, 13 November 2007
- ‘Aliens wonen al op aarde,’ NWT: Natuur Wetenschap & Techniek, October 2007, p. 34
- ‘Does the universe have a purpose? Perhaps,’ New York Times 6 Oct 2007
- 'How the universe got its laws', New Scientist, 30 June 2007
- 'Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it," The Guardian, 26 June 2007
- 'Quantum leap of faith,' The Australian, 30 May 2007
- 'Life, the universe and everything', Cosmos 14, 46 (2007)
- 'Reloading the matrix', Science & Spirit, March/April 2007, p. 58
- 'The universe's weird bio-friendliness', The Chronicle Review, April 6, 2007, p. 14
- Deconstructing the cosmic jackpot, New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, March/April 2007, p. 10
- Web interview Do we live in a multiverse? December 2006
- Interview with Ian Taylor, Focus Magazine, December 2006, p. 40
- And another thing, Sunday Life (Australia), 10 December 2006
- Things I've learned, interview by Lilly Bragge, The Age, 2
December 2006
- The books that changed me, Sun Herald (Australia), 12 November 2006
- The bear necessities of life, Times Higher Education Supplement,
13 October 2006
- Goldilocks and the riddle of the perfect universe, interview with
Stuart Wavel, The Sunday Times, 8 October 2006.
- 42? No, there's more to it Oxford Times, 28 September 2006
- Looking for the biggest answers, The Daily Telegraph, 21 September 2006
- Review of The Singularity
is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Nature 440,
421 (2006)
- Review of The Labyrinth of Time by Michael Lockwood, Times Higher Education
Supplement (in the press)
- Review of Introduction to Black Holes, Information & String Theory by Leonard Susskind and James Lindesay in Australian Physicist (in the press)
- Review of Nuclear Energy Fallacies by Colin Keay in Australian Physics (in the press)
- 'Quantum mechanics and complexity,' Physics World (in the press)
- Interview in Belief (ed. Joan Bakewell: Duckworth Publishers, UK, 2006)
- "Contemplating the cosmos," Science & Theology News, April 2006
- "In search of a second genesis", New Scientist, 11 February 2006, p. 48
- "Viajes en el tiempo", Espacio, February 2006, p. 35
- Interview "E.T. contact would transform society", Ohmy News, 17 January
2006, http://english.ohmynews.com/
- "That mysterious flow", Scientific American special edition, January 2006, p. 82
- Review of Information and its Role in Nature by J.G. Roederer (Springer 2005) in Australian Physics42, 170 (2006)
- "A quantum leap of faith", The Guardian 20 December 2005
- 'Searching for the fourth law,' New Scientist 29 October 2005, p. 51
- "Living with aliens", The Guardian, 8 September 2005
- 'A quantum recipe for life,' Nature Vol 437, 819 (2005)
- Interview
by Helen Joyce in Plus Magazine , web publication, http://plus.maths.org/,
July 2005.
- Review of Warped Passages by Lisa Randall in Nature, Vol 435, 30 June 2005, p.1161
- Review of Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System by P. Clancy, A. Brack and G. Horneck, New Scientist , 25 June 2005, p. 50
- 'What I am reading,' BBC Sky at Night Magazine, June issue
- Interview in Science & Spirit, May/June 2005, p. 60.
- 'Goodbye Mars, hello Earth,' New York Times, 10 April 2005
- "E = mc 2 centenary survey," web publication, http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/science/sciencesurvey/ April 2005
- 'Seeking inspiration in science,' Times Higher
Education Supplement, 11 March 2005.
- Review
of Empire of the Stars by Arthur Miller, Literary Review (UK),
March 2005
- 'Seeking inspiration in science,' Times
Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2005
- Review of Empire of the Mind by Arthur Miller, Literary
Review (UK, 2005).
- 'The sum of the parts,' New Scientist,
5 March 2005, p. 34
- 'Chance or creation? Only the multiverse knows for sure,' Science & Theology
News, January 2005, p. 35
- 'Meeting of the minds,' Science & Spirit, Jan/Feb
2005, p. 34
- 'Die botschaft der au b erirdischen in uns,' in Telepolis
Magazine (Germany), January 2005, p. 115.
- 'Huygens offers scientists a chance to look for life beneath
Titan's haze,' Sydney Morning Herald, 28 December
2004.
- 'The ascent of life,' New Scientist, 11 December,
2004, p. 30.
- Review of How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, by
Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham Nature 432, 9 Dec 2004,
p. 675.
- 'Understand nature's mystery number,' in 100 Things to Do
Before You Die (Profile Books, London), p. 33.
- 'Sind ausserirdische unterirdische?' Astronomie Heute (Sky & Telescope,
Germany) 11 November 2004, p. 22.
- 'La vita non è materia: è informazione,' L'Eco
di Bergamo, Culture supplement (Italy), 10 October 2004.
- 'When time began,' New Scientist Supplement, 9 October
2004, p. 4.
- 'Undermining free will,' Foreign Policy Magazine, Sept/Oct
2004, p. 36.
- Review of The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Focus
Magazine (UK), September 2004, p. 84.
- 'In defence of the ghost in the machine,' Australian Financial
Review, 3 September 2004.
- 'Message for the curious: please phone ET, at home,' Sydney
Morning Herald, 10 August 2004
- 'Do we have to spell it out?' New Scientist, 7 August
2004, p. 30.
- 'Minds over matter: 40 Years of Knowledge,' The Australian, 40
Years special supplement, 31 July 2004
- 'Be warned, this could be the matrix,' The Sydney Morning
Herald, 22 July 2004
- 'Human nature to make or break,' The Sunday Times (Australia),
27 June 2004
- 'Tax slug floors creative entrepreneurs,' The Australian, 10
May 2004
- 'Einstein the first spin doctor,' The Guardian, 10
April 2004
- 'Review of The Fabric of the Cosmos,' by Brian Greene, Nature 428, 18
March 2004, p. 257
- '2500 years on, the big question remains: how long is a piece
of string theory?' Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February
2004
- 'Life
(and death) on Mars,' New York Times, 15 January
2004
- 'Dark forces of the cosmos,' The Bulletin (Australia),
December 10, 2003, p. 58
- 'Time and notion,' The Bulletin (Australia), November
5, 2003
- 'Reality
in the melting pot,' The Guardian (UK) September
23, 2003
- 'ET & God,' Atlantic Monthly, September 2003,
p. 112.
- 'Un puzzle cosmologico,' KOS (Italy), 215/6 (August-September
2003), p. 26.
- 'Out of this world,' in How the Earth Works, The
Daily Telegraph supplement (Australia), 18 March
2003
- 'Mars attracts,' The Bulletin (Australia), 6 August
2003
- 'The other side of infinity,' The Australian, 15
July 2003
- 'Born lucky,' New Scientist, 12 July 2003
- 'A
brief history of the multiverse,' New York Times, 12
April 2003
- 'Was Einstein wrong?' Prospect Magazine (UK), April
2003
- Review of Faster than the speed of light, by Joao
Magueijo, Prospect Magazine, April 2003
- 'Time: exploring the fourth dimension,' Focus Magazine (UK)
No. 124, March 2003
- 'Universal
truths,' The Guardian (UK) 23 January 2003
- 'Is
anyone out there? ' The Guardian (UK) 22
January 2003
- 'Is this how life on Earth began?' The Daily Telegraph (UK)
21 January 2003
- 'Cradle of life,' The Bulletin (Australia), 14
January, 2003, p. 29
- 'The
best of times, the worst of times,' Sydney Morning
Herald 1 January 2003
- 'Now
is the reason for our discontent,' The Age, 1
January 2003
- 'How
we could create life,' The Guardian (UK)
December 11, 2002
- 'The cradle of life,' The Bulletin (Australia),
December 11, 2002
- 'It's
true, men really are from Mars,' The Guardian (UK)
October 30, 2002
- 'Camping in the cradle of life,' The Bulletin, October,
2002
- 'Seven wonders,' New Scientist, September 21, 2002
- 'Life
may not add up, but it computes,' The Guardian (UK)
August 01, 2002
- 'Not so fast Einstein, light's got the brakes on,' Sydney
Morning Herald, 8 August 2002
- 'Consciousness: Paul Davies talks to Stephen Jones at Tucson
II,' www.culture.com.au/brain_proj, 19
June 2002
- 'End of the universe,' The Bulletin (Australia),
12 June 2002
- 'Can time run backwards?' The Bulletin, March 2002
- 'Looking
out for the mother of all comets,' Sydney Morning
Herald,10 January 2002
- 'Time travel,' The Age, 24 November 2001
- 'Liquid space,' New Scientist, 3 November 2001
- 'Stuck at the last temporal turnstile, The Times Higher
Education Supplement, 2 November 2001
- 'Buying
time,' The Guardian (UK), 18 October 2001
- Review of Nine Crazy Ideas in Science by Robert
Erlich and Time Travel in Einstein's Universe by
J.R. Gott, Nature 413, 27 September
2001, p.354.
- 'Life among the stars,' The Advertiser (Australia),
4 August 2001
- 'Journey from the centre of the earth,' The Bulletin, 29
May 2001
- 'Journey from the centre of the Earth,' The Bulletin, 23
May 2001
- 'ET
phone in ... please,' Sydney Morning Herald, 28
April 2001
- 'Life in the underworld,' The Bulletin April 2001
- 'Armageddon times,' The Bulletin, 27 March 2001
- 'The
great red hope,' Sydney Morning Herald, 24
February 2001
- 'A spasso nel tempo,' Internazionale 370, 26
January 2001, p.40
- 'Taking the time to travel,' The Advertiser, 9 December
2000
- 'Know the future,' The Bulletin, 21 November 2000
- 'Time
loops,' The Third Culture, Edge interview,
31 October, 2000.
- 'Many questions, some answers,' (with Steven Weinberg), discussion
transcribed by Timothy
Ferris, Forbes Magazin e, USA, 2 October 2000
- 'Is
that qualia in your circuits? ' Sydney Morning Herald, 16
September 2000
- 'Weblife:
on the move,' The Guardian, 31 August
2000
- 'Life among the stars,' The Advertiser, August 2001
- Contribution to the Space Series Lift-Out, The Advertiser, January
2001
- 'Time travel,' The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
- 'Bang
goes Einstein's speed of light theory,' S ydney
Morning Herald, 21 July 2000
- 'Consciousness' The Advertiser, 20 July 2000
- 'Light
goes backwards in time,' The Guardian, 20
July 2000
- 'Quantum computing: a key to unlocking the ultimate reality?' Science
and Spirit, May/June 2000
- 'The truth is out there - or is it?' The Bulletin, May
2000
- 'Are we still alone?' The Advertiser, Weekend Magazine, 6
May 2000
- 'Flattening the universal idea,' The Advertiser, 29
April 2000
- 'Time and notion,' The Bulletin, 21 March 2000,
p.19
- Article in The Sunday Age (Australia), 19 March
2000.
- 'How to get to Mars (and back),' The Advertiser, 11
March 2000
- 'Time...the final frontier,' The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK),
10 March 2000
- 'Time travel,' The Bulletin, March 2000
- 'Martian life on earth: the test,' The Advertiser, 15
January 2000
- 'The gospel according to science,' The Times Higher Education
Supplement, 28 January 2000
- 'It's
a bug's life,' The Guardian, 13 January 2000
- 'The quest for the dream machine,' The Bulletin, 11
January 2000
- 'Looking for life in the vast lane,' The Sunday Age, 2
January 2000
- 'Unsolved problems of cosmology,' The Weekend Australian, 18-19
December 1999
- 'Search for life beyond Earth,' The Weekend Australian, 18-19
December 1999
- 'Why we still believe in aliens, regardless of the facts, '
The Age, 6 November 1999
- 'A brief history of aliens,' Good Weekend Magazine (Australia),
October 1999
- 'At the crossroads,' Forbes Magazine, 4 October
1999, p. 231
- 'Is there life out there?' The Wall Street Journal, 24
September 1999
- 'Life force,' New Scientist, 18 September 1999,
p. 27
- 'When it comes to the crunch,' Good Weekend Magazine, 18
September 1999
- 'If you're out there, ET, log on,' Search Lites, Spring
1999
- 'Life. But not as we know it,' The Bulletin, 10
August 1999
- 'We're all Martians,' Ottawa Citizen, 7 August 1999
- 'Cosmic calamity,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23
July 1999
- 'Cosmic dreams,' The Australian, 21 July 1999
- 'The end of the world' The Sydney Morning Herald, Millennium
Project, June 1999
- 'Masters of the universe,' The Guardian, 8 April
1999
- 'Small is beautiful as nanobes reveal we are not alone,' The
Guardian, 20 March 1999
- 'Bit before it?' New Scientist, 30 January
1999, p. 3
- 'La mente de Dios,' Boletín de Información, Fundación
BBV, 1999 edition, p. 3
- 'Microbes won't survive interstellar travel,' SearchLites, Spring
1999
- 'Star warps,' Forbes ASAP, 30 November 1998
- 'Reach for the sky,' The Advertiser, 24 October
1998
- 'Ants in the machine,' Sydney Morning Herald, 17
October 1998
- 'Chaos theory and economics, The Age, 17 October
1998
- 'Survivors from Mars,' New Scientist, 12 September
1998, p. 24
- 'Facing the quest for the ultimate antique final frontier,' The
Advertiser, 12 September 1998
- 'To Earth, with love,' University of Adelaide Student Newspaper, 24
August 1998
- 'Aliens,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 22
August 1998
- Melbourne Writers' Festival keynote address reprinted, The
Age, 22 August 1998
- 'Why the human race might not exist if evolution returned
to square one,' The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7
August 1998
- 'The mating gene,' The Dominion (New Zealand),
August 1998
- 'Where did life begin?' The Age Magazine, Good Weekend Magazine, 1
August 1998, p.14
- 'In the beginning, there was...?' The Advertiser, 1
August 1998
- 'When science and theology collide,' The Age, 18
July 1998
- 'The mating gene,' The Age, 2 July 1998
- 'Rich pickings,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 25
April 1998
- 'Paradox lost,' New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p.
27
- 'Moon of mystery,' The Age, 14 March 1998
- 'When worlds collide,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 13
March 1998
- 'Scientific thirst. Ice on the moon,' Sydney Morning Herald, 7
March 1998
- 'Richard Feynman, spirit of the new physics,' Obituary in The
Guardian, February 1998.
- 'The next step,' The West Australian, 1 November
1997
- 'Time's arrow,' New Scientist, 1 November 1997
- 'Strange times,' New Scientist, 1 November 1997
- 'How we'll conquer,' Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October
1997
- 'The Martian,' The Age, 12 July 1997
- 'Seeing red,' Sydney Morning Herald,' 12 July 1997
- 'Could life on Earth have started on the red planet?' The
Sunday Age, 6 July 1997
- 'Are we alone? UFOs, alien abductions events - until we wake
up.' Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1997
- 'Martians attack!' The Age, 14 June 1997
- 'Mars,' PM Magazine, December 1996
- 'The future of God,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 21
December 1996
- 'Next stop Mars,' The Weekend Review, 2-3 November
1996
- 'Where are all the extraterrestrials?' New Scientist, 5
October 1996
- 'Complexity,' The Statesman Festival, 1996, p.115
- 'Shaking light from the void,' Nature, 29 August
1996, p.761
- 'Belief in tranquility,' The Weekend Review, 17
- 18 August 1996
- 'Are we home alone?' The Sunday Age, 11 August 1996
- 'We are probably not alone,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 10
August1996
- 'Why we may once have been Martians,' The Sydney Morning
Herald, 8 August 1996
- 'Are we really all Martians?' The Advertiser,
8 August 1996
- ' Mars: The missing link ?' The Age, 8
August 1996
- 'Cause, effect and cosmic lottery,' The Australian, 12
June 1996
- 'Where did the Big Bang come from?' World Press Review, May
1996
- 'Return to consciousness,' The Australian, 22 May
1996
- 'The day time began,' New Scientist, 27 April 1996,
p. 30
- 'The improbable cosmic lottery,' The Australian, 2
April 1996
- 'Review of Extraterrestrial Intelligence,' by Jean
Heidmann, The Times Higher, 22 March 1996
- 'No life on Mars may be a thing of the past,' The Australian, 13
March 1996
- 'Is the universe a free lunch?' Independent on Sunday, 3
March 1996
- 'Que es el infinito?' Conocer, February 1996, p.64
- 'The harmony of the spheres,' Time Magazine, 5 February
1996, p.58
- 'Is there life in outer space,' Time Magazine, 5
February 1996, p. 44
- 'Hawking won't toe particle line,' The Australian, 24
January 1996
- 'Proofs of God in a photon?' Independent on Sunday, 24
December 1995
- 'To sleep, perchance to dream,' The Australian, 15
November 1995
- 'A novel approach to temporal anomalies,' The Australian, 1
November 1995
- 'A brief history of time travel: some scenarios,' The Australian, 11
October 1995
- 'Are we alone?' The Advertiser Weekend Magazine, 7
October 1995
- 'Hatte Gott keine Wahl, al ser di Groben im Universum schuf?' PM
Magazine, September 1995, p.16
- 'El mito de la materia,' Conocer, September 1995,
p.68
- Review of The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose, The
Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 September 1995
- 'Military cover-up or elaborate hoax?' The Australian, 6
September 1995
- 'Aqui la Tierra. Digame?' Conocer, July 1995, p.6
- 'Antigravity returns in theoretical starring role,' The
Australian, 19 July 1995
- 'Neural networking,' The Times Higher Education Supplement 26
May 1995
- 'Could life have been delivered by meteor?" The Australian, 24
May 1995
- 'The thought that counts,' New Scientist, 6 May
1995
- 'Getting to grips with God: science and the superbeing,' The
Guardian, 4 May 1995
- 'How science robs us of time's mystery,' The Daily Telegraph (UK),
3 May 1995
- 'Before the big bang,' The Australian Higher Education Supplemen t,
9 March 1994
- 'Are we alone?' Focus Magazine, March 1995, p. 40
- 'The big crunch, Science Spectra, January 1995,
p.8
- 'Twists in time,' 21'C, January 1995, p.20
- 'Is anybody out there? ET, phone Earth now!' The Australian, 18
January 1995
- 'On the meaning of Mach's principle,' File 940922Mach from
the Go2 archive of The Guardian OnLine © Guardian
Newspapers Ltd
- 'Le leggi del caso,' Sfera, November/December 1994,
p.40
- 'It's such a difficult age!' The Guardian, 10 November
1994
- 'How the world will end,' The Advertiser, 5 November
1994
- 'Ich hab's! Ich hab's!' PM Magazine, November 1994
- 'Un cometa gigante amenaza a la tierra,' Conocer, November
1994, p.6
- 'Die Marionette tanzt, doch Faden sind,' PM Magazine, September
1994
- 'Adventures of discovery,' Times Educational Supplement, 16
September 1994
- 'Birth of the clever city,' The Guardian, 15 September
1994
- 'Free will: it's all so predictable,' The Australian, 17
August 1994
- 'The birth of the universe,' 21'C, Autumn 1994,
p.96
- 'God is a pure mathematician,' Miscellany, 26 June
1994
- 'The nature of consciousness,' Miscellany, 19
June 1994
- 'Life and consciousness,' Miscellany, 12 June 1994
- 'Mysteries of the mind,' Miscellany, 5 June 1994
- 'The mystery of consciousness,' Miscellany, 29
May 1994
- 'Close encounters, ' The Weekend Australian, 28
- 29 May 1994
- 'Search shifts below ground for rocky beginnings of life,' The
Australian, 11 May 1994
- 'Ubiquitous spanner in the works,' The Australian, 13
April 1994
- 'Life before time began,' The Australian, 9 March
1994
- 'Como funciona la mente de Dios,' Conocer, February
1994, p.64
- 'Urkraft elektrizitat: Was steckt dahinter?' PM Magazine, January
1994
- 'New light on black holes,' (paper? ) January 1994, p.84
- 'Can you beat the clock?' Physics World, December
1993, p.7
- 'Leichter als nichts - das soll es ... geben?' PM Magazine, December
1993
- 'From chaos to natural organization,' The Australian, 22
September 1993
- 'About time,' The National Trust Magazine, Spring
1993
- 'The future for traveling in time,' Focus, November
1993, p.50
- 'Time bends,' The Guardian, 12 August 1993
- Review of Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings of Science, by
Jeremy Bernstein, Natural History, July 1993, p.68
- 'Nuevas teorias sobre el origen de la vida,' Conocer, July
1993, p.4
- 'Distant thunder of dying stars,' The Guardian, 15
July 1993
- 'The ultimate vanishing act,' Discover Magazine, October
1993
- Review of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg, 21C, Winter
1993, p.83
- Reviews of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven
Weinberg and The God Particle by Leon Lederman, The New
York Times Book Review, 7 March 1993
- 'Die gespenstischen boten, die unser,' PM Magazine, March
1993
- 'Asi sera el final del universo,' Conocer, March
1993, p.20
- 'Die schreckl. leere im inneren der materiek,' PM Magazine, February
1993
- 'La dimensione dell universo,' Sfera, February 1993,
p.80
- 'The mind of God,' Resurgence, September/October
1992, p.36
- 'In tune with universe but lost for words,' The Advertiser, 17
August 1992
- 'Are we alone?' The Weekend Australian, 1,2 August
1992
- 'In der tachyoneenwelt trifft ein pfeil schon.. 'PM Magazine, August1992,
p.18
- 'Fact or fiction,' The Sunday Age, 12 July 1992
- 'The first one second of the universe,' Mercury, May/June
1992
- 'Has man mastered the universe?' The Weekend Australian, 2/3
May 1992
- 'Woher kommt die energie?' PM Magazine, June 1992,
p.12
- 'The matter myth,' Island, Autumn 1992, p.28
- 'Science, God and the laws of the universe,' 24 hours, August
1992
- 'Ripples but no waves,' The Guardian, 1 July 1992
- 'Has man mastered the universe?' The Weekend Australian
City Edition,2/3 May 1992
- 'Cracking the code of cosmic maths,' The Weekend Review, 28-29
March 1992
- 'Is nature mathematical?' New Scientist, 21 March
1992
- 'Message of the cosmic cryptogram,' The Guardian, 13
March 1992
- 'How did humans get so smart?' Daily Telegraph, 2
March 1992
- 'The mind of God,' OMNI, February 1992, p.4
- 'Project Columbus embarks on an extra-terrestrial voyage,' The
News, 26 February 1992
- 'Die gesetze, denen das all gehorcht Gott?' PM Magazine, January
1992
- 'Wormholes and time machines,' Sky and Telescope, January
1992, p.20
- 'Self-organising the rhythm of life,' The News, 8
January 1992
- 'Time's arrow may turn,' The News, 18 December 1991
- 'Warming to sunspot theory,' The News, 11 December
1991
- 'Bicentenary for father of modern computer,' The News, 4
December 1991
- 'Casting a spying eye over the heavens,' The News, 18
November 1991
- 'New wave research opens up the universe,' The News, 16
November 1991
- 'End of the machine age,' The Daily Telegraph (UK), 30
September 1991
- 'God and science, 21C, Autumn 1991
- Review of The Big Bang Never Happened < by
Eric Lerner, The New York Times, 28 July 1991
- 'Gebt mir elnen superstarken sender, und,' PM Magazine, February
1991
- 'Mystery of rays, quarks and globs,' The News, 7
October 1991
- 'Waves of paradox,' The Weekend Australian, 20 -
21 October 1990
- 'Chaos frees the universe,' New Scientist, 6 October
1990
- 'Big Bang theory may be big blooper,' The News, 30
September 1990
- 'Great balls of lightning,' The Advertiser, 28 September
1990
- 'The clever country must mobilize its natural creativity,' The
Sunday Age, 23 September 1990
- 'Solving the mysterious corn hoax,' The News, 23 September
1991
- 'Science struggles with timely challenge,' The News,
16 September 1991
- 'Thinking' computer on line,' The News, 16 September
1991
- 'Chaos,' 24 Hours (Australia), November 1990, p. 40
- 'Chaos frees the universe,' New Scientist, 6 October
1990, p. 36
- 'Wimps' may decide the fate of the universe,' The Advertiser, 23
August 1990
- 'Time travel, the fact in the science fiction,' The Weekend
Australian, 21-22 July 1990
- 'Baby universes and cosmic Darwinism,' The Independent (UK),
11 June 1990
- 'Galactic vacuum cleaners in space,' Sunday Correspondent, 8
April 1990
- 'Matter-antimatter,' Sky and Telescope, March 1990,
p.257
- 'Geist im atom,' PM Magazine, February 1990, p.14
- 'Science is falling into a black hole,' The Independent
on Sunday, 11 February 1990
- 'Space, time and the superbeing,' The Times Higher Education
Supplement, 5 January 1990
- 'Minds over molecular matter,' The Sunday Times, 12
November 1989
- 'Es gibt doch ein schlupfloch im all,' PM Magazine, October
1989
- Review of A Brief History of Time by Stephen
Hawking, Contemporary Physics 30, 135
(1989)
- 'The heavy emptiness of space,' The Independent, 24
July 1989
- 'Let them eat crumbs...' The Guardian, 9 May 1989
- 'Brain drain putting science in crisis, claims professor,' The
Daily Telegraph, 28 March 1989
- 'Eine welle kommt selten allein, uuber es ist,' PM Magazine, March
1989
- 'Ist alles wahr, was Wissenschaftler sagen?' PM Magazine, February
1989
- Review of A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism by
Milton A. Rothman, Nature 336, 10
November 1988, p. 121
- 'Law and order in the universe,' New Scientist, 15
October 1988, p. 58.
- 'Der schlauch ist dunner als ein haar-und,' PM Magazine, May
1988
- 'Das ringen des verstandes mit der,' PM Magazine, February
1988
- 'Great balls of fire,' New Scientist 24/31 December
1987, p. 64
- 'Jetzt - und schon ist est vorbei!' PM Magazine, December
1987
- 'Das grobe ratsel gegenwart. Jetzt - und,' PM Magazine, December
1987
- 'The creative cosmos,' New Scientist, 17 December
1987, p. 41
- 'Die unsichtbaren netze, in denen wir alle...' PM Magazine, November
1987
- 'World without end after all,' The Guardian, 23
October 1987
- 'Was die welt zusammenhalt,' Die Zeit nr 42, 9 October
1987
- 'Forscher experimentieren mit antimaterie,' PM Magazine, June
1987
- 'Der mensch ist ein mensch. Und eine,' PM Magazine, March
1987
- 'Kann der mensch die zeit denn nie'zu, PM Magazine, August
1986
- 'Die zeit: jeder weisse, was das ist - bis er..,' PM Magazine, July
1986
- 'Kann die wissenschaft die groben,' PM Magazine, June
1986
- 'Ist der glaube an Gott noch wiss. Haltbar? PM Magazine, April
1986
- 'Was bleibt vom weltall ubrig, wenn man,' PM Magazine, February
1986
- Review of The Loitering Universe and Other Stories by
Jeremy Gibbon, New Scientist, 19/26 December 1985,
p. 71
- 'New physics and the new big bang,' Sky and Telescope, November 1985, p. 406
- 'Schwarze locher,' PM Magazine, September 1985,
p.44
- 'What's wrong with becoming a female physicist?' Guardian, 27 September 1984
- 'New physics and the new big bang,' Sky and Telescope, August
1985
- 'Do particles really exist?' New Scientist, 2 May
1985, p. 40
- 'Paul Dirac: a quantum pioneer,' New Scientist, 8
November 1984, p. 42
- Review of The Hidden Universe by Michael Disney, New
Scientist, 1 November 1984, p. 49
- 'The best of all possible worlds?' New Scientist, 23
August 1984, p. 29
- 'Die moglichkeit, dab es welten gibt, die wir,' PM
Magazine, July 1984
- Review of In Search of Reality by Bernard d'Espagnat, New
Scientist, 17 May 1984, p. 49
- 'The eleven dimensions of reality,' New Scientist, 9
February 1984, p. 31
- 'The eleventh dimension,' Science Digest (USA),
January 1984, p.72
- 'The anthropic principle,' Science Digest 191, October
1983, p.24
- 'God and the new physics,' Science Digest (USA),
September 1983
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