The Ark

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man..." Albert Einstein called this spirit Lambda, which referred to the "cosmological constant" of the universe. Years after he renounced it, however, it lives on in the minds of scientists who search for coherence and constancy in the universe. Science writer Corey Powell calls this "sci/religion" and he thinks it's the religion of the future.

Guests

Corey S. Powell
is a Senior Editor at Discover magazine, where he assigns and edits the news section and edits feature articles on astronomy, physics, and palaeontology. He is also an adjunct professor of science journalism at New York University's Science and Environmental Reporting Program. Before joining Discover he spent eight years on the Board of Editors at Scientific American, and also worked at Physics Today and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where he assisted in the testing of gamma-ray telescopes. Powell lives in Brooklyn, where it is depressingly easy to count the number of stars in the sky.

Further Information

Discover magazine
http://www.discover.com/

Einstein
Well-resourced exhibition site at the American Museum of Natural History.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/

Publications

Title: God in the Equation : How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era
Author : Corey S. Powell
Publisher: Free Press, 2002