Newswise — The Board of Directors of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil Turok to the position of Executive Director. The ...

You couldn’t be faulted for thinking that our increasing knowledge of the universe yields only a universe of ever-increasing complexity. It sure looks that way. An atom, once a promise of fundamental ...

Years ago when I lived in Canada I used to love listening to a CBC radio programme called Ideas, which devotes one hour to the in-depth discussion of a concept, event or idea. Incredibly, there are ...

The Big Bang may not have been the absolute beginning of everything. Instead, a controversial cosmological model suggests it was a boundary separating our universe from a mirror universe where time ...

Neil Turok is the inaugural Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He holds the Roger Penrose Visiting Professorship at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in ...

A theoretical physics institute must be a bit like a science-fiction starship, in that you actually have to take concepts like extradimensional wormholes and inflationary multiverses seriously. If ...

WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, May 20, 2011 – Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce that the Government of Ghana has committed US$1.5 million to the centrepiece of PI's global outreach effort, the ...

Cambridge University mathematical physicist and cosmologist Neil Turok says the Big Bang is nice, but “our” Big Bang is only one in an infinite series of expansions and contractions. He theorizes that ...

Noted physicist Neil Turok heads to Canada. Neil Turok wants the freedom to explore new ideas. When he takes the helm of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, this autumn he intends to ...