Paul J. Steinhardt

Albert Einstein Professor in Science
Princeton University

"A truly amazing adventure story, full of twists and turns, right up to the very end."
--- Sir Roger Penrose, author of The Emperor’s New Mind

Cosmological Bounces & Bouncing Cosmologies

An initiative supported by a targeted grant from the Simons Foundation to develop new theories of the universe
with a bounce instead of a bang in which space and time have no beginning or end

Photonics

Materials with novel symmetries designed according to mathematical principles
to manipulate and control the flow of light in futuristic computer and communication devices

QUASICRYSTALS DISCOVERED AT ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO

Never-before-seen quasicrystals created during the first atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945