We’ve produced two videos and two distinct books, Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals, and Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale, developed from Howard Burton’s in-depth conversations with Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University.
The first one is called Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals. This conversation provides a comprehensive account of a marvellous scientific adventure story in the quest for a natural quasicrystal. Readers will be taken on a fascinating ride through the physics of materials, from theory, to the laboratory, to the discovery of a new state of matter, that culminated in Paul Steinhardt’s dramatic Siberian expedition.
Paul Steinhardt talks about his encounters with mineral smugglers, secret diaries and quasi-mythical characters during his “Indiana Jones” expedition from Florence to Israel, Amsterdam to California, Princeton to Kamchatka which led him to find quasicrystals that are quite literally out of this world…
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale is developed from a second in-depth conversation with Paul Steinhardt who is one of the originators of the theory of cosmic inflation and has become one of its fiercest critics. This fascinating conversation covers topics such as Paul Steinhardt’s scientific development, his formative experiences at Caltech including his encounters with Richard Feynman, his development and later scepticism of the theory of cosmic inflation, the response of the scientific community to the failure of this theory, his theory of cosmology, The Ekpyrotic Universe, and more..
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
Videos of both conversations will be available soon – please use the contact form for further details. Paul Steinhardt is also featured in 14 short documentaries together with several other renowned researchers.
