Modern scientific and technological developments are vastly different from the forecasts by science fiction authors who promised us space travel and intelligent humanoid robots.
Discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, will establish a new Golden Age, bringing our fundamental understanding of the physical world to a new level.
Ben Schumacher describes how some things can happen in our universe, and others cannot. The laws of physics establish the boundary between possibility and impossibility.