Beware of Misleading Heatmap Comparisons on Social Media

During the recent heatwave in Europe, several images made rounds on social media that allegedly show how temperature maps on TV have been changed to more alarming tones to scare viewers. 

Another Experiment Fails to Detect Dark Matter Particles

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has looked for dark matter particles and found nothing. These experiments have been done with increasing sensitivity since the 1980s. As I explained in "Lost in Math", it's a waste of time and money because there's no reason these particles should exist in the first place. Stacy McGaugh explains what this means here. 

Additional Storyline: Astronomers have kicked a known asteroid out of the data base and the alert system automatically re-discovered it.

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So Many New Books Coming Up!

Sean Carroll has written a new book that'll appear in September. It seems to be the first of a planned series on "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe", focusing on Space, Time, and Motion.Martin Rees also has a new book out in September titled "If Science is To Save Us", Lawrence Krauss has one on the "Known Unknows" appearing next Spring.Tim Palmer, the singing climate physicist, has a book coming out in October about how chaos theory links climate models to quantum mechanics.And finally, my own book "Existential Physics" will be published in two weeks. 

Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human condition. Here's the first review of my new book. Pre-order it here."Sabine Hossenfelder is a unique writing talent...you will come away from the experience enriched, and will think about the world differently than you did before."

—Lawrence Krauss, bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek, A Universe from Nothing, and The Physics of Climate Change

Einstein's insights have dramatically changed our understanding of space and time. In this week's episode, I talk about the "Block Universe" in which the past, present, and future exist in the same way.

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