Paul Davies
Curriculum Vitae
Paul C.W. Davies
Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 871504, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504
(480) 727-0774 Fax: 480 965 7954
deepthought@asu.edu
Nationality: British & Australian
Education/degrees
BSc First Class in Physics, University College London, 1967
Ph.D, Physics Department, University College London, 1970
DSc honoris causa, Macquarie University, Sydney (2006)
DSc honoris causa, Chapman University, California (2009)
Professional Appointments
2012 – Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University
2006- Director, Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, College Professor, Arizona State University
2001 - 2006 Professor of Natural Philosophy, Macquarie University
1998 - Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Imperial College London
1998 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, University of Queensland
1993 - 1997 Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide
1990 - 1993 Professor of Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide
1980 - 1990 Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1972 - 1980 Lecturer in Mathematics, King's College, University of London
1970 - 1972 Research Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Professional organizations
Member, International Academy of Astronautics
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, UK Institute of Physics
Chartered Physicist (CPhys), UK Institute of Physics
Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics
Fellow, World Economic Forum
Fellow, Royal Literary Society
Honorary Fellow, Indian Astronomical Society
Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Physics
Corresponding Member, International Academy of Astronautics
Member, New York Academy of Sciences
Member, Foundational Questions Institute
Member, International Association of Mathematical Physics
Member, Australasian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation
Member, International Society for Science and Religion
Member, Royal Society of New South Wales
Awards and honors
Robinson Cosmology Prize (2011)
Fellowship of University College London (2011)
Bicentenary Medal of Chile (2011)
Klumpke-Roberts Prize, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2011)
DSc honoris causa,, Chapman University, California (2009)
Member of the Order of Australia (2007)
DSc honoris causa, Macquarie University, Sydney (2006)
Trotter Prize, Texas A & M University (2004)
Wilbur Award for religious-themed media, USA (2004)
Most Beautiful Export Award, Australia (2003)
J.K. Russell Fellowship, CTNS, Berkeley (2003)
American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (2003)
Michael Faraday Award, The Royal Society (2002)
Nomination, Australian of the Year (2002)
Kelvin Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, UK (2001)
The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1995)
Templeton - CTNS Book Prize (1995)
Advance Australia Award for outstanding contributions to science (1993)
Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science (Australia) (1992)
Eureka Book Prize (Australia) (1991)
Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship (UK) (1983)
Asteroid 1992 OG renamed (6870) Pauldavies
Publications Relevant to the Proposed Research
1. The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe? Penguin (2010)
2. The Origin of Life, Penguin (UK) 2003.
3. ‘Towards a theory of life,’ with S.A. Benner, in Frontiers of Astrobiology (eds. Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunin and Fr. José Funes, S.J.; Cambridge University Press, 2012).
4. ‘The algorithmic origins of life, with S.I. Walker, J.R. Soc. Interface 10, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0869 (2012).
5. ‘Evolutionary transitions and top-down causation,’ with L. Cisneros & S.I. Walker,Proceedings of Artificial Life XIII, 283 (2012).
6. A quantum recipe for life,’ Nature 437, 819 (2005)
Full List of Publications
Books
The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?
Penguin (2010)
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the universe just right for life?
Allen Lane, the Penguin Press (2006).
To be published in the USA by Houghton Mifflin under the title Cosmic Jackpot (April 2007)
How to Build a Time Machine
Penguin/Viking (2001)
The Fifth Miracle: the search for the origin of life
Allan Lane (1998)
Simon & Schuster (1998)
Revised ed. published under the title The Origin of Life, Penguin (UK) 2003.
More Big Questions
(with Phillip Adams) Penguin Australia 1998
One Universe or Many Universes?
Di Renzo Editore (1998)
The Big Questions
(with Phillip Adams) Penguin Australia (1996)
Are We Alone? The philosophical basis of the search for
extraterrestrial life
Basic Books (1995)
Penguin (1995) U.K.
About Time: Einstein's unfinished revolution
Simon & Schuster (1995)
Viking (1995)
The Last Three Minutes
Basic Books (1994)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1994)
The Mind of God
Simon & Schuster, (1992).
Penguin (1993) U.K.
The Matter Myth
(with J. Gribbin) Simon & Schuster (1991).
Penguin (1991)
Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?
(with J.R. Brown) Cambridge University Press (1988)
The Cosmic Blueprint
Heinemann (1987) U.S.A.
Simon & Schuster (1988) U.S.A.
Revised edition, Templeton Foundation Press (2004)
Fireball
Heinemann (1987) U.K.
The Ghost in the Atom
(with J.R. Brown) Cambridge University Press (1986); Canto edition (1993)
Quantum Mechanics, second edition
(with D. Betts), Chapman & Hall (1994)
Quantum Mechanics
Routledge & Kegan Paul (1984) U.K.
Superforce
Heinemann (1984) U.K.
Simon & Schuster (1983) U.S.A.
God and the New Physics
J.M. Dent (1983) U.K.
Simon & Schuster (1983) U.S.A.
Quantum Fields in Curved Space (with N.D. Birrell)
Cambridge University Press (1982)
The Accidental Universe
Cambridge University Press (1982)
The Edge of Infinity
J.M. Dent (1981) U.K.
Simon & Schuster (1981) U.S.A.
Revised ed. Penguin (1994) U.K.
The Search for Gravity Waves
Cambridge University Press (1980)
Other Worlds
J.M. Dent (1980) U.K.
Simon & Schuster (1980) U.S.A.
The Forces of Nature
Cambridge University Press (1979)
Second ed. (1986)
The Runaway Universe
J.M. Dent (1978) U.K.
Harper & Row (1978) U.S.A.
Fontana (under the title Stardoom 1979) U.K; p/b
Space and Time in the Modern Universe
Cambridge University Press (1977)
The Physics of Time Asymmetry
Surrey University Press (1974) U.K.
University of California Press, U.S.A. (1974)
Books edited
Complexity and the Arrow of Time
(with C.H. Lineweaver and M. Ruse)
Cambridge University Press (2013)
Quantum Aspects of Life
(with Derek Abbott and Arun Pati)
Imperial College Press (2008)
Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology X
(with Richard Hoover, Gilbert Levin and Alexei Rozanov)
SPIE Publications (2007)
The Re-Emergence of Emergence
(with Philip Clayton)
Oxford University Press (2006)
Science and Ultimate Reality
(with John D. Barrow & Charles Harper)
Cambridge University Press (2004)
The New Physics
Cambridge University Press (1989)
Audio books
The Last Three Minutes
Orion Audio Books
Orion Media (London)
The Big Questions
Louis Braille Books
South Yarra, Vic., Australia
Forewords, prefaces and introductions to the following books
Thinking About Gödel and Turing: Essays on complexity, 1970-2007 by Gregory Chaitin (World Scientific, Singapore 2007).
The Parallel Bang by Jack Bacon (Normandy House, Houston 2006).
Fred Hoyle: A life in science by Simon Mitton (Arum Press, London 2005).
The Re-Emergence of Emergence (ed. Philip Clayton; Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006).
To Mars and Beyond: Search for the Origins of Life (Art Exhibitions Australia, Sydney 2001).
The God Experiment by Russell Stannard (Paulist Press, Mahwah, New Jersey 2000).
The Search for Life on Mars by Malcolm Walter (Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1999).
Eclipse by Duncan Steel (Headline, London 1999).
Wizards of Oz by Peter Spinks (Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1999).
Ball Lightning—An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics by Mark Stenhoff (Kluwer/Plenum, New York 1999).
Sharing the Universe by Seth Shostak (Berkeley Hills Books, Berkeley 1998).
Patterns in the Sand by Terry Bossomaier & David Green (Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1998).
Ripples on a Cosmic Sea by David Blair and Geoff McNamara (Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1997).
Cosmic Bullets by Roger Clay & Bruce Dawson (Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1997).
Quantum Technology by Gerard Milburn (Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1996).
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. 1995)
Riddles in Your Teacup by Partha Ghose & Dipankar Home (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol 1994).
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman, 1992 edition (Penguin, London).
Physics and Philosophy by W. Heisenberg, 1989 edition (Penguin, London).
Research papers in peer-reviewed professional journals
1. ‘Destination Mars: colonization via initial one-way missions,’ with D. Schulze-Makuch, JBIS 66, (2013).
2. ‘Self-organization and entropy production in a living cell,’ with E. Rieper & J.A. Tuszynski, BioSystems 111, 1 (2013).
3. ‘The algorithmic origins of life, with S.I. Walker, J.R. Soc. Interface 10, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0869 (2012).
4. 'Isotropic 3D Nuclear Morphometry of normal, fibrocystic and malignant breast epithelial cells reveals novel structural alterations' with Vivek Nandakumar, Laimonas Kelbauskas, Kathryn Hernandez, Kelly Lintecum, Patti Senechal, Kimberly Bussey, Roger Johnson and Deirdre Meldrum, PLoS ONE (2012).
5. 'Searching for alien artifacts on the moon' with R.V.Wagner, Acta Astranautica, doi:10.1016 (2011).
6. 'Cancer as a dynamical phase transition' with Lloyd Demetrius and Jack A Tuszynski, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 8 1, 30 (2011).
7. 'Epigenetics and top-down causation', J.R. Soc. Interface 2, 42-48 (2011).
8. 'Footprints of alien technology', Acta Astranutica 4, 185 (2011).
9. 'AFM stiffness nanotomography of normal, metaplastic and dysplastic human esophageal cells' with A Fuhrmann, J R Staunton, V Nandakumar, N Banyai, and R Ros, Physical Biology 8, 015007 (2011).
10. Response to comments on 'A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorous' with Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Jodi Switzer Blum, Thomas R.Kulp, Gwyneth W.Gordon, Shelley E.Hoeft, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, John F.Stolz, Samuel M.Webb, Peter K.Weber, Ariel D. Anbar, Ronald S.Oremland AAAS, Science Reprint, 332, 1163 (2011).
11. 'Cancer tumors as Metazoa 1.0: tapping genes of ancient ancestors' with C H Lineweaver, Physical Biology 015001 8, (2011).
12. 'Searching for a shadow biosphere on Earth as a test of the ‘cosmic imperative’', Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society A 369, 624 (2011).
13. 'A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorous' with Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Jodi Switzer Blum, Thomas R.Kulp, Gwyneth W.Gordon, Shelley E.Hoeft, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, John F.Stolz, Samuel M.Webb, Peter K.Weber, Ariel D. Anbar, Ronald S.Oremland AAAS (Advancing Science Serving Society) 332, 1163 (2011).
14. 'To boldly go: A one-way human mission to mars' with Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Journal of Cosmology 12, 189 (2010).
15. ‘Time-dependent quantum weak values: decay law for post-selected states,’ Phys. Rev. A 79, 032103 (2009).
16. ‘Signatures of a shadow biosphere’ with S. Benner, C. Cleland, C. Lineweaver, C. McKay and F. Wolfe-Simon, Astrobiology 9, No. 2 (2009).
17. ‘Did nature also choose arsenic?’ with A. Anbar and F. Wolfe-Simon (International J. Astrobiology, 8, 69, (2009).
18. ‘Constraints on the value of the fine-structure constant from gravitational thermodynamics,’ International Journal of Theoretical Physics 47, 1949 (2008).
19. ‘The implications of a cosmological information bound for complexity, quantum information and the nature of physical law,’ Fluctuation and Noise Letters 7, L391 (2007).
20. ‘Searching for a second sample of life on Earth,’ with C. H. Lineweaver, Astrobiology 5, 154 (2005).
21. ‘Quantum vacuum friction,’ J. Optics B 7, S40 (2005).
22. ‘Quantum tunneling time,’ American J. Phys. 73 (1), 73 (2005).
23. ‘Emergent biological principles and the computational resources of the universe,’ Complexity 10 (2), 1 (2004).
24. ‘Does quantum mechanics play a non-trivial role in life?’ BioSystems 78, 69 (2004).
25. ‘Transit time of a quantum particle in free fall,’ Classical & Quantum Gravity 21, 5677 (2004).
26. ‘Quantum mechanics and the equivalence principle,’ Classical & Quantum Gravity 21, 2761 (2004).
27. ‘Multiverse cosmological models,’ Mod. Phys. Lett. A 19, 727 (2004).
28. ‘Tachyonic dark matter,’ Int. J. Theor. Phys. 43, 141 (2004).
29. ‘Does life’s rapid appearance imply an extraterrestrial origin?’ Astrobiology 4, 673 (2004).
30. 'Black hole versus cosmological horizon entropy,’ with T. M. Davis and C. Lineweaver, Classical and Quantum Gravity 20, 2753 (2003).
31. ‘How bio-friendly is the universe?’ International Journal of Astrobiology 2 (0), 1 (2003).
32. ‘How far can the generalized second law be generalized?’ with T.M. Davis, Foundations of Physics 32, 1877 (2003).
33. ‘Order from disorder: the role of noise in creative processes,’ with D. Abbott and C.R. Shalizi, Fluctuation and Noise Letters 2, No. 4, C1 (2002).
34. ‘Cosmology: black holes constrain varying constants,’ with T.M. Davis & C. Lineweaver Nature 418, 602 (2002).
35. ‘Detection of negative energy: I. 4-dimensional examples,’ with A. Ottewill, Phys. Rev. D 65, 104014-1 (2002).
36. ‘Quantum vacuum noise in physics and cosmology,’ Chaos 11, No. 3 (2001), 1.
37. ‘The origin of life II: How did it begin?’ Science Progress 8, 17 (2001).
38. ‘The origin of life I: When and where did it begin?’ Science Progress 8, 1 (2001).
39. ‘Did Earthlife Come From Mars?’ The Observatory 119, 310 (1999).
40. ‘Einstein’s greatest mistake?’ Astrophys. & Space Sci. 244, 219 (1996).
41. ‘The rotating quantum vacuum’ with Tevian Dray & Corinne Manogue, Phys. Rev. D 53, 4382 (1996).
42. ‘Time-symmetric cosmology and the opacity of the future light cone’ with J. Twamley, Class. Quantum Grav. 10, 931 (1993).
43. ‘Quantum vacuum instability near rotating stars’ with A.L. Matacz and A.C. Ottewill, Phys. Rev. D 47, 1557 (1993).
44. ‘A cosmological dissipative structure’ Int. J. Theor. Phys. 28, 1051 (1989).
45. ‘Thermodynamic phase transitions of Kerr-Newman black holes in de Sitter space’ Class. Quantum Grav. 6, 1 (1989).
46. ‘Journey through a black hole’ with I.G. Moss, Class. Quantum Grav. 6, L173, (1989).
47. ‘Particle detector response near static reflecting boundaries’ with X. Liu and A. Ottewill, Class. Quantum Grav. 6, 1041 (1989).
48. ‘Cosmological event horizons, entropy and quantum particles’ Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré 49 (No. 3), 297 (1988).
49. ‘Cosmological horizons and entropy’ Class. Quantum Grav. 5, 1349 (1988).
50. ‘Quantum gravitational effects near cosmic strings’ with V. Sahni, Class. Quantum Grav. 5, 1 (1988).
51. ‘Cosmological horizons and the generalized second law of thermodynamics’ Class. Quantum Grav. 4 L225-L228 (1987).
52. The anthropic principle’ Postepy Fizyki 37, 213 (1986).
53. ‘Gravitational entropy: beyond the black hole’ with D.N. Page and L.H. Ford, Phys. Rev. D 34, 1700 (1986).
54. ‘Measurement of the velocity of a Dirac particle’ J. Phys. A 19, 2114 (1986).
55. ‘Boundary effects and the massless limit of the photon’, with D.J. Toms, Phys. Rev. D 31, 1363 (1985).
56. ‘Inflation in the universe and time asymmetry’, Nature 312, 524 (1984).
57. ‘Mining the universe’, Phys. Rev. D 30, 737 (1984).
58. ‘Acceleration radiation in a compact space’ with E. Copeland and K. Hinton, Class. Quantum Grav. 1, 179 (1984).
59. ‘The anthropic principle’ Prog. Particle Nucl. Phys. 10, 1 (1983).
60. ‘Accelerated observers to not detect isotropic thermal radiation’ with K. Hinton and J. Pfautsch, Phys. Letts. B 120, 88 (1983).
61. ‘Inflation and time asymmetry in the universe’ Nature 301, 398 (1983).
62. ‘Spontaneously generated gravity and the second law of thermodynamics’ Phys. Letts. B 110, 111 (1982).
63. ‘Can moving mirrors violate the second law of thermodynamics?’ Phys. Letts. B 113, 215 (1982).
64. ‘Broken symmetry theories of gravity and implications for cosmology’ with R. Critchley and G. Kennedy, Phys. Letts. B 112, 331 (1982).
65. ‘Quantum theory and the equivalence principle’ with J. Fang, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 381, 569 (1982).
66. ‘An exactly soluble moving-mirror problem’ with W.R. Walker, J. Phys. A 15, L477 (1982).
67. ‘The anthropic principle and the early universe’ Mercury 10, 66 (1981).
68. ‘Why is the cosmological constant so small?’ with S.D. Unwin, Proc. R. Soc. A 377, 147 (1981).
69. ‘Gauge theories, black hole evaporation and cosmic censorship’ Phys. Letts. 101B, 399 (1981).
70. ‘Quantum vacuum energy and the masslessness of the photon’ with S.D. Unwin, Phys. Letts. 98B, 274 (1981).
71. ‘Massive particle production in anisotropic space-times’ with N.D. Birrell
J. Phys. A 13, 2109 (1980).
72. ‘Conformal symmetry breaking and cosmological particle creation’ with N.D. Birrell, Phys. Rev. D 22, 322 (1980).
73. ‘Effects of field interactions upon particle creation in Robertson-Walker universes’ with N.D. Birrell and L.H. Ford, J. Phys. A 13, 961 (1980).
74. ‘Perturbation technique for quantum stress tensors in a general Robertson-Walker space-time’ with W.G. Unruh, Phys. Rev. D 20, 388 (1979).
75. ‘Massless Thirring model in curved space; thermal states and conformal anomaly’ with N.D. Birrell, Phys. Rev. D 18, 4408 (1978).
76. ‘Thermodynamic theory of black holes’ Rep. Prog. Phys. 41, 1313 (1979).
77. ‘On falling through a black hole into another universe’ with N.D. Birrell, Nature 272, 35 (1978).
78. ‘Non-conformal renormalised stress tensors in Robertson-Walker space-times’ with T.S. Bunch, J. Phys. A 11, 1315 (1978).
79. ‘Equivalence of massless boson and fermion theories in curved two dimensional space-time: Sugawara stress tensor’ J. Phys. A 11, 179 (1978).
80. ‘Quantum field theory in de Sitter space; renormalization by point splitting’ with T.S. Bunch, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 360, 117 (1978).
81. ‘Energy-momentum tensor of a massless scalar quantum field in a Robertson-Walker universe’ with S.A. Fulling, S.M. Christensen and T.S. Bunch, Ann. Phys. 109, 108 (1977).
82. ‘Singularity avoidance and quantum conformal anomalies’ Physics Letts. 68B, 402 (1977).
83. ‘Covariant point-splitting regularization for a scalar quantum field in a Robertson-Walker universe with spatial curvature’ with T.S. Bunch, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 357, 381 (1977).
84. ‘Stress tensor and conformal anomalies for massless fields in a Robertson-Walker universe’ with T.S. Bunch, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 356, 569 (1977).
85. ‘Neutrino stress tensor regularization in two-dimensional space-time’ with W.G. Unruh, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 356, 259 (1977).
86. ‘Radiation from moving mirrors and from black holes’ Proc. Roy. Soc. A 356, 237 (1977).
87. ‘Quantum vacuum stress without regularization in two-dimensional space-time,’ Proc. Roy. Soc. 354, 529 (1977).
88. ‘Quantum vacuum energy in two-dimensional space-times’ with S.A. Fulling, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 354, 59 (1977).
89. ‘The thermodynamic theory of black holes’ Proc. Roy. Soc. A 353, 499 (1977).
90. ‘Black hole thermodynamics and time asymmetry’ Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 177, 179 (1976).
91. ‘On the origin of black hole evaporation radiation’ Proc. Roy. Soc. A 351, 129 (1976).
92. ‘Energy-momentum tensor near an evaporating black hole’ with S.A. Fulling and W.G. Unruh, Phys. Rev. D 13, 2720 (1976).
93. ‘Weak interaction in the big bang’ Nature 259, 157 (1976).
94. ‘Radiation from a moving mirror in two-dimensional space-time; conformal anomaly’with S.A. Fulling, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 348, 393 (1976).
95. ‘Some cosmological consequences of imaginary mass’ Nuovo Cimento 25, 571 (1975).
96. ‘Scalar particle production in Schwarzschild and Rindler metrics’ J. Phys. A 8, 609 (1975).
1. ‘On recent experiments to detect advanced radiation’ J. Phys. A 8, 272 (1975).
2. ‘Second law of thermodynamics’ Nature 248, 366 (1974).
3. ‘Do black holes really explode?’ with J.G. Taylor, Nature 250, 37 (1974).
4. ‘The thermal future of the universe’ Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 161, 1 (1973).
5. ‘Closed time as an explanation of the black body background radiation’ Nature Physical Science 240, 3 (1972).
6. ‘Is the universe transparent or opaque?’ J. Phys. A 5, 1722 (1972).
7. ‘Time variation of the coupling constants’ J. Phys. A 5, 1296 (1972).
8. ‘Extension of Wheeler-Feynman quantum theory to the relativistic domain: II-Emission processes’ J. Phys. A 5, 1025 (1972).
9. ‘Extension of Wheeler-Feynman quantum theory to the relativistic domain: I-Scattering processes’ J. Phys. A 4, 836 (1971).
10. ‘Charged particle creation in cosmology’ Nuovo Cimento 6B, 16 (1971).
11. ‘A quantum theory of Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics’ Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. 68, 751 (1970).
12. ‘Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravitation’ Nature 228, 270 (1970).
13. ‘Radiation damping in the optical continuum’ with M.J. Seaton, J. Phys. B2, 757 (1969).
14. ‘Cosmology and electrodynamics’ Nature 224, 1102 (1969).
Chapters in books and conference proceedings, and published lectures
1. ‘Quantum weak measurements and cosmology,’ Proceedings of the 80th birthday conference for Yakir Aharonov (submitted).
2. ‘Directionality principles from cancer to cosmology’ in The Self-Organizing Universe: Cosmology, Biology and the Rise of Complexity (eds. Charles Lineweaver and Michael Ruse; Cambridge University Press), in the press.
3. Evolutionary transitions and top-down causation,’ with L. Cisneros & S.I. Walker, Proceedings of Artificial Life XIII, 283 (2012).
4. ‘Towards a theory of life,’ with S.A. Benner, in Frontiers of Astrobiology (eds. Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunine and Fr. José Funes, S.J.; Cambridge University Press, 2012).
5. ‘How mathematics is surprisingly useful in understanding the Universe’ in George and the Big Bang (Doubleday, 2011).
6. ‘Multiverse cosmological models’ in The Astronomy Revolution: 400 years of exploring the cosmos (eds. Owen Gingerich & Don York, Taylor and Francis, 2011).
7. ‘Introduction’ in A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet (with Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Cosmology Science Publishers, 2011).
8. ‘Why is the universe just right for life?’ in Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment (eds. A.-T. Tymieniecka & A. Grandpierre. Special issue: Analecta Husserliana CVII. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011) p. 199.
9. ‘Universe from bit’ in Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics, (eds. with Gregersen, N.H., Cambridge University Press 2010) p. 65.
10. ‘Where did the laws of physics come from?’ Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness,(eds. R.Y. Chiao, M.L. Cohen, A.J. Leggett, W.D. Phillips, and C.L. Harper, Jr. Cambridge University Press 2010) p. 689.
11. ‘Just typical: Our changing place in the universe’ in Seeing Further: The story of science & the Royal Society (ed. B. Bryson, 2010), p. 321.
12. 'The nature of the laws of physics and their mysterious bio-friendliness.' In Science and religion in dialogue (ed. Melville Stewart, Blackwell, 2010) p. 769.
13. ‘Shadow Biosphere,’ in This will change everything: Ideas that will shape the future (ed. John Brockman, Harper, 2010) p.88.
14. ‘Just typical: our changing place in the universe,’ in Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society (ed. Bill Bryson, Harper, London, 2010), p. 4.
15. 'Life, mind, and culture as fundamental properties of the universe.' In, Cosmos and Culture(ed. Steven J. Dick & Mark L. Lupisella, NASA Press, 2009) p. 383.
16. ‘What’s the far future of intelligence in the universe?’
(March 2009).
17. Reprinted section from The Goldilocks Enigma, in The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (ed. Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 323.
18. ‘Searching for an alternative form of life on Earth,’ Proceedings of SPIE, 6694, 19 (2007).
19. ‘A one-way ticket to Mars,’ in What Are You Optimistic About? (ed. John Brockman; Harper 2007), p. 162.
20. ‘Space destroyed and time obliterated,’ in Mind, Life and the Universe (eds. Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset; Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007), p. 309.
21. ‘Universes galore: where will it all end?’ in Universe or Multiverse? (ed. Bernard Carr; Cambridge University Press 2007), p. 487.
22. ‘The fight against global warming is lost,’ in What Is Your Dangerous Idea? (ed. John Brockman; Harper, New York, 2007), p. 43.
23. ‘The implications of a holographic universe for complexity, quantum information and the nature of physical law,’ in Randomness & Complexity, from Leibniz to Chaitin (ed. C.S. Calude; World Scientific, Singapore, 2007), p.1.
24. ‘Bacterial utilization of L-Sugars and D-amino acids,’ with E.V. Pikuta, R.B. Hoover, B. Klyce and P.A. Davies, in proceedings of SPIE’s 47th annual meeting, San Diego, August 2006, 63090A.
25. ‘Where do the laws of physics come from?’ in Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology and Consciousness, ed. Raymond Y. Chiao, William D. Phillips, Anthony J. Leggett, Marvin L. Cohen, and Charles L. Harper, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008).
26. ‘Chirality, quantum mechanics and biological determinism,’ in proceedings of SPIE’s 47th annual meeting, San Diego, August 2006, 630908.
27. ‘The problem of what exists,’ astro-ph/0602420.
28. ‘Glimpsing the mind of God,’ in Science and the Search for Meaning (ed. Jean Staune; Templeton Foundation Press 2006), 27.
29. ‘Flying apart,’ in My Einstein (ed. John Brockman, Pantheon Books, New York 2006), p. 223.
30. ‘How many universes?’ in God’s Action in Nature’s World, Essays in honor of Robert J. Russell (ed. T. Peters; Ashgate Publishing, UK, 2006), 217.
31. ‘Fitness and the cosmic environment,’ in Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning (ed. J. D. Barrow, S. Conway Morris, S. J. Freeland and C. L. Harper, Jr.; Cambridge University Press 2007), 97.
32. Preface to The Re-Emergence of Emergence (ed. Philip Clayton and Paul Davies; Oxford University Press 2006), p. ix.
33. ‘The physics of downward causation,’ in The Re-Emergence of Emergence (ed. Philip Clayton and Paul Davies; Oxford University Press 2006).
34. ‘Accentuating the negative,’ in Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed (ed. Jim Al-Khalili; Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004), p. 210.
35. ‘Are we alone in the universe?’ in What We Believe But Cannot Prove (ed. John Brockman, The Free Press 2005), 17.
36. ‘The search for life in the universe,’ in proceedings of SPIE’s 46th annual meeting, San Diego, 31 July – 3 August 2005.
37. ‘Life in a violent universe,’ Darwin College lecture series on ‘Conflict,’ (ed. M. Jones & A. Fabian, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005), 144.
38. ‘Entrapercevoir l’esprit de dieu,’ in Science at Quête de Sens (ed. Jean Staune, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris 2005), 39.
39. ‘The universe: what’s the point?’ in "Spiritual Information": 100 Perspectives (ed. Charles L. Harper, Jr; Templeton Foundation Press, Pennsylvania, 2005), 132.
40. ‘The arrow of time,’ in Astronomy & Geophysics 46 (1), 26 (2005).
41. ‘Quantum fluctuations and life,’ Proceedings of the symposium “Fluctuations and Noise,” Gran Canaria, Spain, 25-28 May 2004, sponsored by SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering).
42. ‘Quantum clocks and the foundations of relativity,’ Proceedings of the symposium “Fluctuations and Noise,” Gran Canaria, Spain, 25-28 May 2004, sponsored by SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering).
43. ‘Physics for the Third Millennium,’ Humanity 3000 Seminar 4 Proceedings (Foundation for the Future, Bellevue, Wa., 2004), 75.
44. ‘The importance of being a clever country,’ Report of the First Annual Future Summit, Sydney, 6-8 May 2004 (ed. Michael Roux, Australian Davos Connection, Melbourne, 2004), 76.
45. ‘Cosmology calls’ in Curious Minds (ed. John Brockman; Pantheon Books, New York, 2004), 53.
46. ‘Quantum mechanics and the origin of life’ in Life Among the Stars (eds. R. Norris & F. Stootman, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004), p. 237.
47. ‘Quantum fluctuations and life,’ in Noise and Information in Nanoelectronic, Sensors and Standards II, SPIE proceedings 5472 (eds. J.M. Smulko et. al., SPIE, Bellingham, Wa., 2004), 1. ‘Quantum clocks and the foundations of relativity,’ in Noise and Information in Nanoelectronic, Sensors and Standards II, SPIE proceedings 5472 (eds. J.M. Smulko et. al., SPIE, Bellingham, Wa., 2004), 87.
48. ‘Teleology without teleology,’ in In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being (eds. Philip Clayton & Arthur Peacocke; William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2004), 95.
49. ‘John Archibald Wheeler and the clash of ideas,’ in Science and Ultimate Reality (eds. J.D. Barrow, P.C.W. Davies & C. L. Harper; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004), 3.
50. ‘Emergent complexity, teleology and the arrow of time,’ in Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (eds. Michael Ruse and William Dembski; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004), 476.
51. ‘Complexity and the arrow of time,’ in From Complexity to Life (ed. Niels Gregerson; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003), 72.
52. ‘The appearance of design in physics and cosmology,’ in God and Design (ed. Neil Manson; Routledge, 2003), 147.
53. ‘The quest for the dream machine,’ in Frontiers 02 (ed. Tim Radford; Atlantic Books, 2003).
54. ‘Eternity: who needs it?’ in The Far Future Universe (ed. G.F.R. Ellis; Templeton Foundation Press, Philadelphia, 2002), 41.
55. ‘Was there a second genesis?’ in The Next Fifty Years (ed. John Brockman; Vintage, New York, 2002), 159.
56. ‘The ingeniously ordered universe,’ in Time and Tide (John Hunt Publishing, Arlesford, Hampshire, 2001), 38.
57. ‘A cosmic religious feeling’ in Science and the Spiritual Quest Boston Conference October 21-23, 2001 (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, 2001).
58. ‘Physics and life’ in The First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe (ed. J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen & F. Raulin; Kluwer, Dordrecht ,2001).
59. ‘Mystery at the end of the universe,’ in The Book of the Cosmos (ed. Dennis Richard Danielson; Helix, Cambridge, Mass., 2000), 516.
60. ‘What happened before the big bang?’ in God for the 21st Century (ed. Russell Stannard; Templeton Foundation Press, Philadelphia 2000), 15.
61. ‘Vacuum viscosity and quantum noise: from atoms to galaxies,’ in Unsolved Problems of Noise and Fluctuations (eds. Derek Abbott & Laszlo Kish; American Institute of Physics, New York, 2000), 16.
62. ‘Biological determinism, information theory and the origin of life,’ in Many Worlds (ed. Steven Dick; Templeton Foundation Press, Philadelphia, 2000), 15.
63. ‘Transformations in spirituality and religion,’ in When SETI Succeeds:The Impact of High Information Contact (ed. Allen Tough; Foundation for the Future, Washington D.C., 2000), 51.
64. ‘Are we alone? The search for life beyond Earth,’ in Science, Ethics and Human Destiny (ed. Douglas Glynn; Couchiching Institute of Public Affairs, Toronto, 1999), 44.
65. ‘Three “Origin” Mysteries’ in Predictions: 30 great minds on the future (ed. Sian Griffiths; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999), 47.
66. ‘Is the universe bio-friendly’ in Origin of Intelligent Life in the Universe (eds. Roberto Colombo et. al.; Edizione New Press, Como, 1999), 27.
67. ‘What caused the big bang?’ in Modern Cosmology & Philosophy (ed. John Leslie; Prometheus, Amherst, 1998), 226.
68. ‘Are we alone?’ in Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe (eds. J. Chela-Flores & F. Raulin; Kluwer, Amsterdam, 1998), 61.
69. ‘Did Earthlife come from Mars?’ in Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe (eds. J. Chela-Flores & F. Raulin; Kluwer, Amsterdam, 1998), 241.
70. ‘The cosmic blueprint: self-organising principles of matter and energy’ in The Spirit of Science (ed. David Lorimer; Floris Books, Edinburgh, 1998), 73.
71. ‘Is the universe absurd?’ in Science & Theology: The New Consonance (ed. Ted Peters; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1998), 65.
72. ‘When do rotating detectors respond?’ with Tevian Dray & Corinne A. Manogue, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (Kluwer, 1998), 213.
73. ‘Teleology Without Teleology: Purpose through Emergent Complexity,’ in Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (eds. Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, S. J., and Francisco J. Ayala; Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory Publications, and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998), 151.
74. ‘Physics and the mind of God’ in Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlacality and the Question of the Existence of God (eds. Alfred Driessen & Antoine Suarez; Kluwer Academic Publications, 1997), 193.
75. ‘Laws of nature: extracting sense from a noisy universe’ in Futures and Directions: Tableau 2 (Tableaux Networks, Cork RTC, 1997), 23.
76. ‘The transfer of viable micro-organisms between planets’ in Evolution of Hydrothermal Ecosystems on Earth (and Mars?): Proceedings of the CIBA Foundation Symposium No. 20 (ed. Gregory Brock and Jamie Goode; Wiley, New York, 1996).
77. ‘La comparsa delle mente nel cosmo’ (‘The emergence of mind in the cosmos”) in Terzo Millennio: Proceedings of the International School of Plasma Physics “Piero Caldirola,” (eds. G. Giorello & E. Sindoni; Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1995), 133.
78. ‘Algorithmic compressibility, fundamental and phenomenological laws’ in The Laws of Nature (ed. F. Weinert; Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1995), 248.
79. ‘The birth of the cosmos’ in God, Cosmos, Nature and Creativity (ed. Jill Gready; Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1995), 1.
80. ‘What happened before the big bang?’ in How Things Are (ed. John Brockman & Katinka Matson; William Morrow, New York, 1995), 29.
81. ‘The Mind of God’ in Physics and Our View of the World (ed. J. Hilgevoord; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994), 226.
82. ‘Stirring up trouble’ in The Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry (ed. J. Halliwell, J. Pérez-Mercader & W.H. Zurek; Cambridge University Press, 1994), 119.
83. The mystery of consciousness’ in Thinking: International Interdisciplinary Perspectives (ed. John Edwards; Hawker-Brownlow Publishing, Melbourne, 1993), 35.
84. ‘The intelligibility of nature’ in Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature (eds. Robert Russell, Nancey Murphy & C.J. Isham; Vatican Observatory Foundation, 1993).
85. ‘Chaos’ in Immagini e Metafore della Scienza (ed. L. Preta; Laterza, 1992), 74.
86. ‘The unreasonable effectiveness of science’ in Evidence of Purpose (ed. John Templeton; American Scientific Association, 1992).
87. ‘Is the Universe a machine?’ The New Scientist Guide to Chaos (ed. Nina Hall, Penguin, London, 1991).
88. ‘The cosmic blueprint’ in What Does It Mean To Be Human? Proceedings of the Second Yoko Civilization International Conference, Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 1989, Takayama, Japan (Yoko Civilization Research Institute, Tokyo, 1991), 112.
89. ‘The first one second of the universe’ in Images of the Universe (eds. C.A. Ronan, P.A. Moore and C. Stott; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991), 199.
90. ‘What are the laws of nature?’ in Valori, Scienza e Trascendenza (ed. M. Pacini, Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1990), 93.
91. ‘What caused the big bang?’ in Physical Cosmology and Philosophy (ed. John Leslie; Macmillan, 1990), 220. ‘Why is the physical world so comprehensible?’ in Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol. VIII (ed. W.H. Zurek; Addison-Wesley, 1990), 61.
92. Open letter to Margaret Thatcher in Dear Next Prime Minister (ed. N. Astley; Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990), 65.
93. ‘Why is the universe knowable?’ in Mathematics and Science (ed. R. Mickens; World Scientific Press, 1990), 14.
94. ‘The creative cosmos’ in The Whole and Its Parts (ed. W.A. Koch; Brockmeyer, Bochüm, 1989), 46. ‘The physics of complex organization’ in Epigenetic Order from Complex Systems: Theoretical Biology (ed. B. Goodwin and P. Saunders; Edinburgh University Press, 1989).
95. ‘A cosmic blueprint,’ (The Ninth Annual Teilhard Lecture) in The Teilhard Review 23, No. 3, 69.
96. ‘Quantum effects in background gravitational fields’ in Origin and Early History of the Universe (ed. J. Demaret; University of Liege Press, 1987), 79.
97. ‘Can the universe create itself?’ in Science and Theology in Action (ed. C. Bloore and P. Donovan; Dunmore Press, 1987), 13.
98. ‘The mind-body problem and quantum reality’ in Consciousness and Survival (ed. J.S. Spong; Inst. of Noetic Sciences, 1987), 105. ‘Time asymmetry and quantum mechanics’ in The Nature of Time (ed. R. Flood and M. Lockwood; Blackwell, 1986), 99.
99. ‘Quantum effects in background gravitational fields’ in Origin and Early History of the Universe (ed. J. Demaret; Presses of the University of Liège, 1987), 79.
100. ‘Particles do not exist’ in Quantum Theory of Gravity (ed. S.M. Christensen; Adam Hilger, 1984), 66.
101. ‘Black hole thermodynamics and time asymmetry’ in The Enigma of Time (ed. P.T. Landsberg, Adam Hilger 1982), 178.
102. ‘Temperature-dependent G and black hole thermodynamics’, in Quantum Gravity (ed. M.A. Markov; Inst. for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 1981), 170.
103. ‘Is thermodynamic gravity a route to quantum gravity?’ in Quantum Gravity II (eds. C.J. Isham, R. Penrose and D.W. Sciama, Oxford University Press, 1981), 183.
104. ‘Time and reality’ in Time, Reduction and Reality (ed. R. Healey; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981), 63. ‘Quantum field theory in curved space-time’ in General Relativity and Gravitation (ed. A. Held; Plenum, 1980), 255.
105. ‘Space-time singularities in cosmology and black hole evaporation’ in The Study of Time III (ed. J.T. Fraser, N. Lawrence and D. Clark; Springer-Verlag, 1978), 74.
106. ‘Stress tensor calculations and conformal anomalies’ in Eighth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (ed. M.D. Papagiannis; New York Academy of Sciences, 1977), 166.
107. ‘Particle creation and geometry’ in Proceedings of the First Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity (ed. R. Ruffini; Elsevier, 1977).
108. ‘Cosmological aspects of time asymmetry’ in Entropy and Information in Science and Philosophy (ed. L. Kubát and J. Zeman; Academia, 1975), 11.
Review papers in journals and specialist publications
1. 'Rethinking cancer', Physics World 23(6), 28 (2010).
2. 'The quantum life' Physics World, July 2009, p.24-29.
3. ‘Betting on black holes’ Nature, July 2008, p.579-578.
4. ‘Are aliens among us?’ Scientific American, December 2007, p. 62.
5. ‘Complexity may be the variable that signals the emergence of classicality from the quantum realm,’ Physics World, December 2005, p. 3.
6. ‘Are extraterrestrials underground?’ Astronomy Today, 11 November 2004, p. 22.
7. ‘New hope for life beyond Earth,’ Sky & Telescope 107, 40 (2004).
8. ‘Was Mars the cradle of life?’ Australian Microbiologist, March 2004, 14.
9. ‘How to build a time machine,’ Scientific American 287, September 2002, 50.
10. ‘That mysterious flow,’ Scientific American 287, September 2002, 40.
11. ‘Time travel,’ in the Best Australian Essays 2001 (ed. Peter Craven, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2001).
12. ‘Quantum computation at University of Queensland,’ University of Queensland, April 2001.
13. ‘Quantum gravity presents the ultimate challenge to theorists,’ Physics World 12 (No. 12), 21 (1999).
14. ‘Interplanetary infestations,’ Sky & Telescope 98 (No. 3), 32 (1999).
15. Review of The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold, Physics World, February 1999, p. 39
16. ‘Is the universe absurd?’ In de Marge (Netherlands) 7 (No. 1), 9 (1998).
17. ‘The acceptance speech of Professor Paul Davies’ in 1995 Templeton Prize (Lismore Press, Nassau, 1995), 9.
18. ‘The cosmic bootstrap: how did the primeval energy come to exist?’ Parabola 17 No. 4, 69 (1992).
19. ‘The arrow of time,’ Memorie della Societa Astronomia Italiana 62, 641 (1991).
20. ‘The cosmic bootstrap,’ Parabola 17, No. 4, 75 (1991).
21. ‘The matter myth’ in SASTA Journal 91, No. 4, 75 (1991).
22. ‘The Search for Gravity Waves’ IEE Review (May 1991), 194.
23. ‘The arrow of time’ Mem. S.A. It. 62, 641 (1991). ‘Cosmogenesis,’ Teilhard Perspectives 23, No. 1 (August 1990).
24. ‘What are the laws of nature?’ in The Reality Club No. 2 (ed. J. Brockman, Elsevier, New York, 1990), 45.
25. ‘Muddling through,’ Physics Bulletin 39, 94 (1988).
26. ‘The waves of paradox’ Bulletin of the IMA 2, 7 (1988).
27. ‘What wound up the universe?’ Proceedings of the Royal Institution 5, 101 (1987).
28. ‘New physics and the new big bang’ Sky & Telescope (Nov. 1985), 406.
29. ‘The inflationary universe’ Universities Quarterly: Culture, Education & Society 38, 144 (1984).
30. ‘Beginning and end of the universe’ in Mannheimer Forum 83/84 (ed. H. von Ditfurth; Boehringer Mannhein GmbH, 1984).
31. ‘Quantum gravity: A unified model of existence?’ Mitteilungen der Astronomischen Gesellscahft 58, 47 (1983).
32. ‘To the end of time’ Geo 8 (No. 3), 55 (1983).
Unpublished undergraduate dissertation
‘Multiple-quantum photodetachment of negative ions,’ June 1967.
Popular articles and essays
A. Selection of newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, published interviews, web essays and podcasts
1. ‘Time travel: can it really be done?’ CNN op-ed, 31 May 2013:
2. ‘The secret of life won’t be cooked up in a chemistry lab,’ The Guardian, 13 Jan 2013.
3. ‘Cancer can teach us about our own evolution’, The Guardian, 18 Nov 2012.
4. 'Out of the ether,' New Scientist, 2011.
5. 'Putting scientists on Mars in permanent colonies', Interview, Wired Magazine, 2011
6. ‘That mysterious flow,’ Scientific American: Special Collector's Edition,’ Spring 2012.
7. ‘How to build a time machine?,’ Scientific American: Special Collector's Edition,’ Spring 2012.
8. ‘Hello, is anybody out there?’, The Australian, 3 August 2011.
9. ‘Faith in the mathematical order’, World Science Festival: Topics: Life Season 2011: Episode 04.15.11.
10. 'A Bacterium that can grow by using Arsenic instead of Phosphorus,' with Felisa Wolfe-Simon et al. Science, 3 June 2011, 1163-1166.
11. Response to comments on ‘A bacterium that can grow using Arsenic instead of Phosphorus,’ with Felisa Wolfe-Simon et al. Science Online, 27 May 2011.
12. ‘Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?’, The Guardian, 25 April 2011.
13. ‘Aurora- the first martian- a vision of colonial life on the red planet’ with Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Joseph Gabriel, in The one way mission to Mars: colonizing the red planet, 2011, Cosmology Science Publishers, 365-380.
14. ‘To boldly go: A one-way human mission to Mars’, co-authored with Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Journal of Cosmology, November 2010.
15. ‘The ‘Give me a job’ microbe’ The Wall Street Journal, 4 December, 2010.
16. Interview with Paul Davies in ‘Talking about life: conversations on Astrobiology’, ed. Impey, C., 2010, Cambridge University Press.
17. ‘Interview with Paul Davies in Atoms & Eden: conversations on Religion & Science', by Steve Paulson, 2010.
18. ‘Why so quite, E.T.?,’ The Free Lance-Star, 26 September, 2010.
19. ‘We are not alone’ from an interview, The West Australian, September 14, 2010 by Drew Turney
20. ‘Stephen Hawking’s big bang gaps,’ The Guardian Online, 4 September 2010.
21. ‘How to Make First Contact,’ SciFi Science, Episode 6, ITV Studios, September 2010
22. ‘Clash of civilizations,’ Big Questions Online- John Templeton Foundation, 26 July 2010.
23. ‘Searching for a Shadow Biosphere on Earth as a Test of the Cosmic Imperative,’ Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society 368, 1930.
24. "Pour la Science," July 20, 2010.
25. 'Paul Davies: Searching for alien life,' interview with Jonathan Charles, BBC HARDtalk, 14 July, 2010.
26. 'The destiny of the universe,' FQXi Community Online, 2 July, 2010.
27. ‘Rethinking cancer,’ Physics World, June 2010.
28. ‘The eerie silence: are we alone in the universe?’ Engineering and Technology, 8 May 2010, p. 76.
29. ‘The aliens among us,’ New York Times, 13 May, 2010.
30. ‘Alien invasion: why Stephen Hawking is wrong’ Speakeasy: Wall Street Journal Online, April 27, 2010.
31. ‘Is anybody out there?’ Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2010.
32. ‘Is anyone out there?’ New Humanist (UK), March-April 2010.
33. ‘The Guardian’s Science weekly podcast,’ interviewed by Andy Duckworth, 15 March, 2010.
34. ‘First contact: the man who will welcome the aliens,’ interview with Jon Ronson, The Guardian, 6 March 2010.
35. Interview with Astronomy Now, January 2010, p. 26.
36. 'Dark matter holds the key to the universe,' Guardian Online, December 23, 2009
37. 'Fly me to Mars. One-way Ticket,' Guardian Online, September 16, 2009
38. 'A one-way ticket to Mars,' Astrobiology Magazine Online, May 25, 2009.
39. ‘Naturläkemedel inte alltid naturliga,” in Forskning & Framsteg (Sweden) (March 2009), p. 10
40. ‘L’information s’en sort indemne,’ in La Recherche No. 427 (February 2009), p. 31
41. ‘What is the origin of life?’ Focus No. 198 January 2009, p. 27
42. Interview with Polityka Niezbednik Inteligenta (Poland) No 42, 2008, p.19
43. ‘Living in the dark,’ Enlightenment Magazine No. 40, May-July 2008, p. 82
44. Review of The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind, Nature 454, 579 (2008)
45. Interview with Ciel & Espace, No. 457, June 2008, p. 38
46. ‘On my mind,’ Seed Magazine, June 2008
47. ‘The brain behind the economy,” The Australian, 9 May 2008
48. Interview in Cosmos 20, April/May 2008, p. 78
49. ‘Des formes de vie alternatives,’ Pour la Science March 2008
50. ‘One-way ticket to the Red Planet,’ Cosmos 18, December 2007
51. ‘Cosmic playground,’ interview with Diane Boudreau, Research Magazine, Arizona state University Fall/Winter 2007
52. ‘Taking science on faith,’ Times of India, 21 December 2007
53. ‘Aliens under our noses,’ Scientific American, 12 December 2007,
54. Response to critics, Edge, 7 December 2007
55. ‘Taking science on faith,’ New York Times, 24 November 2007
56. ‘A fine tuned universe and other mysteries,’ in Star-, 13 November 2007
57. ‘Aliens wonen al op aarde,’ NWT: Natuur Wetenschap & Techniek, October 2007, p. 34
58. ‘Does the universe have a purpose? Perhaps,’ New Scientist 20 Oct 2007
59. ‘Abbiamo avuto una fortuna cosmica,’ Panorama 18 October 2007 (Italy)
60. ‘Does the universe have a purpose? Perhaps,’ New York Times 6 Oct 2007
61. ‘How the universe got its laws,’ New Scientist, 30 June 2007
62. ‘Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn’t mean that a god fixed it,” The Guardian 26 June 2007
63. ‘Quantum leap of faith,’ The Australian, 30 May 2007
64. ‘Life, the universe and everything,’ Cosmos 14, 46 (2007)
65. ‘Reloading the matrix,’ Science & Spirit, March/April 2007, p. 58
66. ‘The universe’s weird bio-friendliness,’ The Chronicle Review, April 6, 2007, p. 14
67. ‘Deconstructing the cosmic jackpot,’ New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, March/April 2007, p. 10
68. Web interview “Do we live in a multiverse?” December 2006
69. Interview with Ian Taylor, Focus Magazine, December 2006, p. 40
70. ‘And another thing…’ Sunday Life (Australia), 10 December 2006
71. ‘Things I’ve learned,’ interview by Lilly Bragge, The Age, 2 December 2006
72. ‘The books that changed me,’ Sun Herald (Australia), 12 November 2006
73. ‘The bear necessities of life,’ Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 October 2006
74. ‘Goldilocks and the riddle of the perfect universe,’ interview with Stuart Wavel, The Sunday Times, 8 October 2006.
75. ’42? No, there’s more to it…’ Oxford Times, 28 September 2006
76. ‘Looking for the biggest answers,’ The Daily Telegraph, 21 September 2006
77. Review of The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Nature 440, 421 (2006)
78. Review of The Labyrinth of Time by Michael Lockwood, Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 March 2006
79. Review of Introduction to Black Holes, Information & String Theory by Leonard Susskind and James Lindesay in Australian Physics 43, 29 (2006)
80. Review of Nuclear Energy Fallacies by Colin Keay in Australian Physics 42, 207 (2006)
81. Interview in Belief (ed. Joan Bakewell: Duckworth Publishers, UK, 2006)
82. ‘Contemplating the cosmos,’ Science & Theology News, April 2006
83. ‘In search of a second genesis,’ New Scientist, 11 February 2006, p. 48
84. ‘Viajes en el tiempo,’ Espacio, February 2006, p. 35
85. Review of Information and its Role in Nature by J.G. Roederer (Springer 2005) in Australian Physics 42, 170 (2006)
86. ‘That mysterious flow,’ Scientific American special edition, January 2006, p. 82
87. Interview ‘E.T. contact would transform society,’ Ohmy News, 17 January 2006,
88. ‘A quantum leap of faith,’ The Guardian 20 December 2005
89. ‘Searching for the fourth law,’ New Scientist 29 October 2005, p. 51
90. ‘A quantum recipe for life,’ Nature 437, 819 (2005)
91. Review of Warped Passages by Lisa Randall in Nature 435, 1161, June 2005
92. Interview by Helen Joyce in Plus Magazine, web publication, , Issue 36, Sep 2005
93. ‘Living with aliens,’ The Guardian, 8 September 2005
94. Interview in Science & Spirit, May/June 2005, p. 60
95. Review of Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System by P. Clancy, A. Brack and G. Horneck, New Scientist, 25 June 2005, p. 50
96. ‘E = mc2 centenary survey,’ web publication, April 2005
97. ‘What I am reading,’ BBC Sky at Night Magazine
98. ‘Goodbye Mars, hello Earth,’ New York Times, 10 April 2005
99. Review of Empire of the Stars by Arthur Miller, Literary Review (UK), March 2005
100. ‘The sum of the parts,’ New Scientist, 5 March 2005, p. 34
101. ‘Chance or creation? Only the multiverse knows for sure,’ Science & Theology News, January 2005, p. 35
102. ‘Meeting of the minds,’ Science & Spirit, Jan/Feb 2005, p. 34
103. ‘Die botschaft der au(erirdischen in uns,’ in Telepolis Magazine (Germany), January 2005, p. 115.
104. ‘Huygens offers scientists a chance to look for life beneath Titan’s haze,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 28 December 2004.
105. ‘The ascent of life,’ New Scientist, 11 December, 2004, p. 30.
106. Review of How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, by Sue Nelson and Richard
Hollingham Nature 432, 9 Dec 2004, p. 675.
107. ‘Understand nature’s mystery number,’ in 100 Things to Do Before You Die (Profile Books, London), p. 33.
108. ‘Sind ausserirdische unterirdische?’ Astronomie Heute (Sky & Telescope, Germany) 11 November 2004, p. 22.
109. ‘La vita non è materia: è informazione,’ L’Eco di Bergamo, Culture supplement (Italy), 10 October 2004.
110. ‘When time began,’ New Scientist Supplement, 9 October 2004, p. 4.
111. ‘Undermining free will,’ Foreign Policy Magazine, Sept/Oct 2004, p. 36.
112. Review of The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Focus Magazine (UK), September 2004, p. 84.
113. ‘In defence of the ghost in the machine,’ Australian Financial Review, 3 September 2004.
114. ‘Message for the curious: please phone ET, at home,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August 2004
115. ‘Do we have to spell it out?’ New Scientist, 7 August 2004, p. 30.
116. ‘Minds over matter: 40 Years of Knowledge,’ The Australian, 40 Years special supplement, 31 July 2004
117. ‘Be warned, this could be the matrix,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2004
118. ‘Human nature to make or break,’ The Sunday Times (Australia), 27 June 2004
119. ‘Tax slug floors creative entrepreneurs,’ The Australian, 10 May 2004
120. ‘Einstein the first spin doctor,’ The Guardian, 10 April 2004
121. ‘Review of The Fabric of the Cosmos,’ by Brian Greene, Nature 428, 18 March 2004, p. 257
122. ‘2500 years on, the big question remains: how long is a piece of string theory?’ Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2004
123. ‘Life (and death) on Mars,’ New York Times, 15 January 2004
124. ‘Dark forces of the cosmos,’ The Bulletin (Australia), December 10, 2003, p. 58
125. ‘Time and notion,’ The Bulletin (Australia), November 5, 2003
126. ‘Reality in the melting pot,’ The Guardian (UK) September 23, 2003
127. ‘ET & God,’ Atlantic Monthly, September 2003, p. 112.
128. ‘Un puzzle cosmologico,’ KOS (Italy), 215/6 (August-September 2003), p. 26.
129. ‘Out of this world,’ in How the Earth Works, The Daily Telegraph supplement (Australia), 18 March 2003
130. ‘Mars attracts,’ The Bulletin (Australia), 6 August 2003
131. ‘The other side of infinity,’ The Australian, 15 July 2003
132. ‘Born lucky,’ New Scientist, 12 July 2003
133. ‘A brief history of the multiverse,’ New York Times, 12 April 2003
134. ‘Was Einstein wrong?’ Prospect Magazine (UK), April 2003
135. Review of Faster than the speed of light, by Joao Magueijo, Prospect Magazine, April 2003
136. ‘Time: exploring the fourth dimension,’ Focus Magazine (UK) No. 124, March 2003
137. ‘Universal truths,’ The Guardian (UK) 23 January 2003
138. ‘Is anyone out there?’ The Guardian (UK) 22 January 2003
139. ‘Is this how life on Earth began?’ The Daily Telegraph (UK) 21 January 2003
140. ‘Cradle of life,’ The Bulletin (Australia), 14 January, 2003, p. 29
141. ‘The best of times, the worst of times,’ Sydney Morning Herald 1 January 2003
142. ‘Now is the reason for our discontent,’ The Age, 1 January 2003
143. ‘How we could create life,’ The Guardian (UK) December 11, 2002
144. ‘The cradle of life,’ The Bulletin (Australia), December 11, 2002
145. ‘It's true, men really are from Mars,’ The Guardian (UK) October 30, 2002
146. ‘Camping in the cradle of life,’ The Bulletin, October, 2002
147. ‘Seven wonders,’ New Scientist, September 21, 2002
148. ‘Life may not add up, but it computes,’ The Guardian (UK) August 01, 2002
149. ‘Not so fast Einstein, light’s got the brakes on,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2002
150. ‘Consciousness: Paul Davies talks to Stephen Jones at Tucson II,’ .au/brain_proj, 19 June 2002
151. ‘End of the universe,’ The Bulletin (Australia), 12 June 2002
152. ‘Can time run backwards?’ The Bulletin, March 2002
153. ‘Looking out for the mother of all comets,’ Sydney Morning Herald,10 January 2002
154. ‘Time travel,’ The Age, 24 November 2001
155. ‘Liquid space,’ New Scientist, 3 November 2001
156. ‘Stuck at the last temporal turnstile, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 November 2001
157. ‘Buying time,’ The Guardian (UK), 18 October 2001
158. Review of Nine Crazy Ideas in Science by Robert Erlich and Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe by J.R. Gott, Nature 413, 27 September 2001, p.354.
159. ‘Life among the stars,’ The Advertiser (Australia), 4 August 2001
160. ‘Journey from the centre of the earth,’ The Bulletin, 29 May 2001
161. ‘Journey from the centre of the Earth,’ The Bulletin, 23 May 2001
162. ‘ET phone in ... please,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2001
163. ‘Life in the underworld,’ The Bulletin April 2001
164. ‘Armageddon times,’ The Bulletin, 27 March 2001
165. ‘The great red hope,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2001
166. ‘A spasso nel tempo,’ Internazionale 370, 26 January 2001, p.40
167. ‘Taking the time to travel,’ The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
168. ‘Know the future,’ The Bulletin, 21 November 2000
169. ‘Time loops,’ The Third Culture, Edge interview, 31 October, 2000, .
170. ‘Many questions, some answers,’ (with Steven Weinberg), discussion transcribed by Timothy Ferris, Forbes Magazine, USA, 2 October 2000
171. ‘Is that qualia in your circuits?’ Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2000
172. ‘Weblife: on the move,’ The Guardian, 31 August 2000
173. ‘Life among the stars,’ The Advertiser, August 2000
174. Contribution to the Space Series Lift-Out, The Advertiser, January 2000
175. ‘Time travel,’ The Advertiser, 9 December 2000
176. ‘Bang goes Einstein's speed of light theory,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2000
177. ‘Consciousness’ The Advertiser, 20 July 2000
178. ‘Light goes backwards in time,’ The Guardian, 20 July 2000
179. ‘Quantum computing: a key to unlocking the ultimate reality?’ Science and Spirit, May/June 2000
180. ‘The truth is out there – or is it?’ The Bulletin, May 2000
181. ‘Are we still alone?’ The Advertiser, Weekend Magazine, 6 May 2000
182. ‘Flattening the universal idea,’ The Advertiser, 29 April 2000
183. ‘Time and notion,’ The Bulletin, 21 March 2000, p.19
184. Article in The Sunday Age (Australia), 19 March 2000.
185. ‘How to get to Mars (and back),’ The Advertiser, 11 March 2000
186. ‘Time…the final frontier,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK), 10 March 2000
187. ‘Time travel,’ The Bulletin, March 2000
188. ‘Martian life on earth: the test,’ The Advertiser, 15 January 2000
189. ‘The gospel according to science,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 January 2000
190. ‘It's a bug's life,’ The Guardian, 13 January 2000
191. ‘The quest for the dream machine,’ The Bulletin, 11 January 2000
192. ‘Looking for life in the vast lane,’ The Sunday Age, 2 January 2000
193. ‘Unsolved problems of cosmology,’ The Weekend Australian, 18–19 December 1999
194. ‘Search for life beyond Earth,’ The Weekend Australian, 18–19 December 1999
195. ‘Why we still believe in aliens, regardless of the facts,’ The Age, 6 November 1999
196. ‘A brief history of aliens,’ Good Weekend Magazine (Australia), October 1999
197. ‘At the crossroads,’ Forbes Magazine, 4 October 1999, p. 231
198. ‘Is there life out there?’ The Wall Street Journal, 24 September 1999
199. ‘Life force,’ New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 27
200. ‘When it comes to the crunch,’ Good Weekend Magazine, 18 September 1999
201. ‘If you’re out there, ET, log on,’ Search Lites, Spring 1999
202. ‘Life. But not as we know it,’ The Bulletin, 10 August 1999
203. ‘We’re all Martians,’ Ottawa Citizen, 7 August 1999
204. ‘Cosmic calamity,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 July 1999
205. ‘Cosmic dreams,’ The Australian, 21 July 1999
206. ‘The end of the world’ The Sydney Morning Herald, Millennium Project, June 1999
207. ‘Masters of the universe,’ The Guardian, 8 April 1999
208. ‘Small is beautiful as nanobes reveal we are not alone,’ The Guardian, 20 March 1999
209. ‘Bit before it?’ New Scientist, 30 January 1999, p. 3
210. ‘La mente de Dios,’ Boletín de Información, Fundación BBV, 1999 edition, p. 3
211. ‘Microbes won’t survive interstellar travel,’ SearchLites, Spring 1999
212. ‘Star warps,’ Forbes ASAP, 30 November 1998
213. ‘Reach for the sky,’ The Advertiser, 24 October 1998
214. ‘Ants in the machine,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October 1998
215. ‘Chaos theory and economics, The Age, 17 October 1998
216. ‘Survivors from Mars,’ New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 24
217. ‘Facing the quest for the ultimate antique final frontier,’ The Advertiser, 12 September 1998
218. ‘To Earth, with love,’ University of Adelaide Student Newspaper, 24 August 1998
219. ‘Aliens,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 1998
220. Melbourne Writers’ Festival keynote address reprinted, The Age, 22 August 1998
221. ‘Why the human race might not exist if evolution returned to square one,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 August 1998
222. ‘The mating gene,’ The Dominion (New Zealand), August 1998
223. ‘Where did life begin?’ The Age Magazine, Good Weekend Magazine, 1 August 1998, p.14
224. ‘In the beginning, there was…?’ The Advertiser, 1 August 1998
225. ‘When science and theology collide,’ The Age, 18 July 1998
226. ‘The mating gene,’ The Age, 2 July 1998
227. ‘Rich pickings,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 April 1998
228. ‘Paradox lost,’ New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p. 27
229. ‘Moon of mystery,’ The Age, 14 March 1998
230. ‘When worlds collide,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 1998
231. ‘Scientific thirst. Ice on the moon,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 1998
232. ‘Richard Feynman, spirit of the new physics,’ Obituary in The Guardian, February 1998.
233. ‘The next step,’ The West Australian, 1 November 1997
234. ‘Time’s arrow,’ New Scientist, 1 November 1997
235. ‘Strange times,’ New Scientist, 1 November 1997
236. ‘How we’ll conquer,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October 1997
237. ‘The Martian,’ The Age, 12 July 1997
238. ‘Seeing red,’ Sydney Morning Herald,’ 12 July 1997
239. ‘Could life on Earth have started on the red planet?’ The Sunday Age, 6 July 1997
240. ‘Are we alone? UFOs, alien abductions events – until we wake up.’ Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1997
241. ‘Martians attack!’ The Age, 14 June 1997
242. ‘Mars,’ PM Magazine, December 1996
243. ‘The future of God,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 1996
244. ‘Next stop Mars,’ The Weekend Review, 2-3 November 1996
245. ‘Where are all the extraterrestrials?’ New Scientist, 5 October 1996
246. ‘Complexity,’ The Statesman Festival, 1996, p.115
247. ‘Shaking light from the void,’ Nature, 29 August 1996, p.761
248. ‘Belief in tranquility,’ The Weekend Review, 17 – 18 August 1996
249. ‘Are we home alone?’ The Sunday Age, 11 August 1996
250. ‘We are probably not alone,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August1996
251. ‘Why we may once have been Martians,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1996
252. ‘Are we really all Martians?’ The Advertiser, 8 August 1996
253. ‘Mars: The missing link?’ The Age, 8 August 1996
254. ‘Cause, effect and cosmic lottery,’ The Australian, 12 June 1996
255. ‘Where did the Big Bang come from?’ World Press Review, May 1996
256. ‘Return to consciousness,’ The Australian, 22 May 1996
257. ‘The day time began,’ New Scientist, 27 April 1996, p. 30
258. ‘The improbable cosmic lottery,’ The Australian, 2 April 1996
259. ‘Review of Extraterrestrial Intelligence,’ by Jean Heidmann, The Times Higher, 22 March 1996
260. ‘No life on Mars may be a thing of the past,’ The Australian, 13 March 1996
261. ‘Is the universe a free lunch?’ Independent on Sunday, 3 March 1996
262. ‘Que es el infinito?’ Conocer, February 1996, p.64
263. ‘The harmony of the spheres,’ Time Magazine, 5 February 1996, p.58
264. ‘Is there life in outer space,’ Time Magazine, 5 February 1996, p. 44
265. ‘Hawking won’t toe particle line,’ The Australian, 24 January 1996
266. ‘Proofs of God in a photon?’ Independent on Sunday, 24 December 1995
267. ‘To sleep, perchance to dream,’ The Australian, 15 November 1995
268. ‘A novel approach to temporal anomalies,’ The Australian, 1 November 1995
269. ‘A brief history of time travel: some scenarios,’ The Australian, 11 October 1995
270. ‘Are we alone?’ The Advertiser Weekend Magazine, 7 October 1995
271. ‘Hatte Gott keine Wahl, al ser di Groben im Universum schuf?’ PM Magazine, September 1995, p.16
272. ‘El mito de la materia,’ Conocer, September 1995, p.68
273. Review of The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 September 1995
274. ‘Military cover-up or elaborate hoax?’ The Australian, 6 September 1995
275. ‘Aqui la Tierra. Digame?’ Conocer, July 1995, p.6
276. ‘Antigravity returns in theoretical starring role,’ The Australian, 19 July 1995
277. ‘Neural networking,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement 26 May 1995
278. ‘Could life have been delivered by meteor?” The Australian, 24 May 1995
279. ‘The thought that counts,’ New Scientist, 6 May 1995
280. ‘Getting to grips with God: science and the superbeing,’ The Guardian, 4 May 1995
281. ‘How science robs us of time’s mystery,’ The Daily Telegraph (UK), 3 May 1995
282. ‘Before the big bang,’ The Australian Higher Education Supplement, 9 March 1994
283. ‘Are we alone?’ Focus Magazine, March 1995, p. 40
284. ‘The big crunch, Science Spectra, January 1995, p.8
285. ‘Twists in time,’ 21’C, January 1995, p.20
286. ‘Is anybody out there? ET, phone Earth now!’ The Australian, 18 January 1995
287. ‘On the meaning of Mach’s principle,’ File 940922Mach from the Go2 archive of The Guardian OnLine © Guardian Newspapers Ltd
288. ‘Le leggi del caso,’ Sfera, November/December 1994, p.40
289. ‘It’s such a difficult age!’ The Guardian, 10 November 1994
290. ‘How the world will end,’ The Advertiser, 5 November 1994
291. ‘Ich hab’s! Ich hab’s!’ PM Magazine, November 1994
292. ‘Un cometa gigante amenaza a la tierra,’ Conocer, November 1994, p.6
293. ‘Die Marionette tanzt, doch Faden sind,’ PM Magazine, September 1994
294. ‘Adventures of discovery,’ Times Educational Supplement, 16 September 1994
295. ‘Birth of the clever city,’ The Guardian, 15 September 1994
296. ‘Free will: it’s all so predictable,’ The Australian, 17 August 1994
297. ‘The birth of the universe,’21’C, Autumn 1994, p.96
298. ‘God is a pure mathematician,’ Miscellany, 26 June 1994
299. ‘The nature of consciousness,’ Miscellany, 19 June 1994
300. ‘Life and consciousness,’ Miscellany, 12 June 1994
301. ‘Mysteries of the mind,’ Miscellany, 5 June 1994
302. ‘The mystery of consciousness,’ Miscellany, 29 May 1994
303. ‘Close encounters,’ The Weekend Australian, 28 – 29 May 1994
304. ‘Search shifts below ground for rocky beginnings of life,’ The Australian, 11 May 1994
305. ‘Ubiquitous spanner in the works,’ The Australian, 13 April 1994
306. ‘Life before time began,’ The Australian, 9 March 1994
307. ‘Como funciona la mente de Dios,’ Conocer, February 1994, p.64
308. ‘Urkraft elektrizitat: Was steckt dahinter?’ PM Magazine, January 1994
309. ‘New light on black holes,’ (paper? ) January 1994, p.84
310. ‘Can you beat the clock?’ Physics World, December 1993, p.7
311. ‘Leichter als nichts – das soll es … geben?’ PM Magazine, December 1993
312. ‘From chaos to natural organization,’ The Australian, 22 September 1993
313. ‘About time,’ The National Trust Magazine, Spring 1993
314. ‘The future for traveling in time,’ Focus, November 1993, p.50
315. ‘Time bends,’ The Guardian, 12 August 1993
316. Review of Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings of Science, by Jeremy Bernstein, Natural History, July 1993, p.68
317. ‘Nuevas teorias sobre el origen de la vida,’ Conocer, July 1993, p.4
318. ‘Distant thunder of dying stars,’ The Guardian, 15 July 1993
319. ‘The ultimate vanishing act,’ Discover Magazine, October 1993
320. Review of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg, 21C, Winter 1993, p.83
321. Reviews of Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg and The God Particle by Leon Lederman, The New York Times Book Review, 7 March 1993
322. ‘Die gespenstischen boten, die unser,’ PM Magazine, March 1993
323. ‘Asi sera el final del universo,’ Conocer, March 1993, p.20
324. ‘Die schreckl. leere im inneren der materiek,’ PM Magazine, February 1993
325. ‘La dimensione dell universo,’ Sfera, February 1993, p.80
326. ‘The mind of God,’ Resurgence, September/October 1992, p.36
327. ‘In tune with universe but lost for words,’ The Advertiser, 17 August 1992
328. ‘Are we alone?’ The Weekend Australian, 1,2 August 1992
329. ‘In der tachyoneenwelt trifft ein pfeil schon..’PM Magazine, August1992, p.18
330. ‘Fact or fiction,’ The Sunday Age, 12 July 1992
331. ‘The first one second of the universe,’ Mercury, May/June 1992
332. ‘Has man mastered the universe?’ The Weekend Australian, 2/3 May 1992
333. ‘Woher kommt die energie?’ PM Magazine, June 1992, p.12
334. ‘The matter myth,’ Island, Autumn 1992, p.28
335. ‘Science, God and the laws of the universe,’ 24 hours, August 1992
336. ‘Ripples but no waves,’ The Guardian, 1 July 1992
337. ‘Has man mastered the universe?’ The Weekend Australian City Edition,2/3 May 1992
338. ‘Cracking the code of cosmic maths,’ The Weekend Review, 28-29 March 1992
339. ‘Is nature mathematical?’ New Scientist, 21 March 1992
340. ‘Message of the cosmic cryptogram,’ The Guardian, 13 March 1992
341. ‘How did humans get so smart?’ Daily Telegraph, 2 March 1992
342. ‘The mind of God,’ OMNI, February 1992, p.4
343. ‘Project Columbus embarks on an extra-terrestrial voyage,’ The News, 26 February 1992
344. ‘Die gesetze, denen das all gehorcht Gott?’ PM Magazine, January 1992
345. ‘Wormholes and time machines,’ Sky and Telescope, January 1992, p.20
346. ‘Self-organising the rhythm of life,’ The News, 8 January 1992
347. ‘Time’s arrow may turn,’ The News, 18 December 1991
348. ‘Warming to sunspot theory,’ The News, 11 December 1991
349. ‘Bicentenary for father of modern computer,’ The News, 4 December 1991
350. ‘Casting a spying eye over the heavens,’ The News, 18 November 1991
351. ‘New wave research opens up the universe,’ The News, 16 November 1991
352. ‘End of the machine age,’ The Daily Telegraph (UK), 30 September 1991
353. ‘God and science, 21C, Autumn 1991
354. Review of The Big Bang Never Happened by Eric Lerner, The New York Times, 28 July 1991
355. ‘Gebt mir elnen superstarken sender, und,’ PM Magazine, February 1991
356. ‘Mystery of rays, quarks and globs,’ The News, 7 October 1991
357. ‘Waves of paradox,’ The Weekend Australian, 20 – 21 October 1990
358. ‘Chaos frees the universe,’ New Scientist, 6 October 1990
359. ‘Big Bang theory may be big blooper,’ The News, 30 September 1990
360. ‘Great balls of lightning,’ The Advertiser, 28 September 1990
361. ‘The clever country must mobilize its natural creativity,’ The Sunday Age, 23 September 1990
362. ‘Solving the mysterious corn hoax,’ The News, 23 September 1991
363. ‘Science struggles with timely challenge,’ The News, 16 September 1991
364. ‘Thinking’ computer on line,’ The News, 16 September 1991
365. ‘Chaos,’ 24 Hours (Australia), November 1990, p. 40
366. ‘Wimps’ may decide the fate of the universe,’ The Advertiser, 23 August 1990
367. ‘Time travel, the fact in the science fiction,’ The Weekend Australian, 21-22 July 1990
368. Review of Does God Play Dice by Ian Stewart, Theology 93, 331 July/August 1990.
369. ‘Baby universes and cosmic Darwinism,’ The Independent (UK), 11 June 1990
370. ‘Galactic vacuum cleaners in space,’ Sunday Correspondent, 8 April 1990
371. ‘Matter-antimatter,’ Sky and Telescope, March 1990, p.257
372. ‘Geist im atom,’ PM Magazine, February 1990, p.14
373. ‘Science is falling into a black hole,’ The Independent on Sunday, 11 February 1990
374. ‘Space, time and the superbeing,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 January 1990
375. ‘Minds over molecular matter,’ The Sunday Times, 12 November 1989
376. ‘Es gibt doch ein schlupfloch im all,’ PM Magazine, October 1989
377. Review of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Contemporary Physics 30, 135 (1989)
378. ‘The heavy emptiness of space,’ The Independent, 24 July 1989
379. ‘Let them eat crumbs…’ The Guardian, 9 May 1989
380. ‘Brain drain putting science in crisis, claims professor,’ The Daily Telegraph, 28 March 1989
381. ‘Eine welle kommt selten allein, uuber es ist,’ PM Magazine, March 1989
382. ‘Ist alles wahr, was Wissenschaftler sagen?’ PM Magazine, February 1989
383. Review of A Physicist’s Guide to Skepticism by Milton A. Rothman, Nature 336, 10 November 1988, p. 121
384. ‘Law and order in the universe,’ New Scientist, 15 October 1988, p. 58.
385. ‘ Der schlauch ist dunner als ein haar-und,’ PM Magazine, May 1988
386. ‘ Das ringen des verstandes mit der,’ PM Magazine, February 1988
387. ‘Great balls of fire,’ New Scientist 24/31 December 1987, p. 64
388. ‘Jetzt – und schon ist est vorbei!’ PM Magazine, December 1987
389. ‘Das grobe ratsel gegenwart. Jetzt – und,’ PM Magazine, December 1987
390. ‘The creative cosmos,’ New Scientist, 17 December 1987, p. 41
391. ‘Die unsichtbaren netze, in denen wir alle…’ PM Magazine, November 1987
392. ‘World without end after all,’ The Guardian, 23 October 1987
393. ‘Was die welt zusammenhalt,’ Die Zeit nr 42, 9 October 1987
394. ‘Forscher experimentieren mit antimaterie,’ PM Magazine, June 1987
395. ‘Der mensch ist ein mensch. Und eine,’ PM Magazine, March 1987
396. ‘Kann der mensch die zeit denn nie’zu, PM Magazine, August 1986
397. ‘Die zeit: jeder weisse, was das ist – bis er..,’ PM Magazine, July 1986
398. ‘Kann die wissenschaft die groben,’ PM Magazine, June 1986
399. ‘Ist der glaube an Gott noch wiss. Haltbar? PM Magazine, April 1986
400. ‘Was bleibt vom weltall ubrig, wenn man,’ PM Magazine, February 1986
401. Review of The Loitering Universe and Other Stories by Jeremy Gibbon, New Scientist, 19/26 December 1985, p. 71
402. ‘New physics and the new big bang,’ Sky and Telescope, November
1985, p. 406
403. ‘Schwarze locher,’ PM Magazine, September 1985, p.44
404. ‘What’s wrong with becoming a female physicist?’ Guardian, 27
September 1984
405. ‘New physics and the new big bang,’ Sky and Telescope, August 1985
406. ‘Do particles really exist?’ New Scientist, 2 May 1985, p. 40
407. ‘Paul Dirac: a quantum pioneer,’ New Scientist, 8 November 1984, p. 42
408. Review of The Hidden Universe by Michael Disney, New Scientist, 1 November 1984, p. 49
409. ‘The best of all possible worlds?’ New Scientist, 23 August 1984, p. 29
410. ‘Die moglichkeit, dab es welten gibt, die wir,’ PM Magazine, July 1984
411. Review of In Search of Reality by Bernard d’Espagnat, New Scientist, 17 May 1984, p. 49
412. ‘The eleven dimensions of reality,’ New Scientist, 9 February 1984, p. 31
413. ‘The eleventh dimension,’ Science Digest (USA), January 1984, p.72
414. ‘The anthropic principle,’ Science Digest 191, October 1983, p.24
415. ‘God and the new physics,’ Science Digest (USA), September 1983
416. ‘Quarks, quasars and the meaning of life,’ Telegraph Sunday Magazine (London), 7 August 1983
417. ‘God and the new physics,’ New Scientist, 23 June 1983, p. 872
418. Review of The Way the World Is by John Polkinghorne, New Scientist, 2 June 1983, p. 638
419. ‘The origin of life: Earth's lucky break,’ Science Digest, May 1983, p.36
420. ‘The inflationary universe,’ The Sciences (USA), 23, March/April 1983, p. 32
421. ‘How the pioneers of the new physics have thrown more light on God,’ The
Guardian, 31 March 1983
422. ‘Speculations,’ Science Digest (USA), March 1983
423. ‘Albert Einstein is a real human being,’ New Scientist, 17 February 1983
424. Review of Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker, Nature 301, 13 January 1983, p. 181
425. Review of Plurality of Worlds by Steven Dick, New Scientist, 7 October 1982, p. 37
426. Review of Superspace and Supergravity by S.W. Hawking and M. Rocek (eds.), The Sciences 22, May/June 1982, p. 24
427. ‘Something for nothing,’ New Scientist, 27 May 1982, p. 580
428. Review of The Science of Spacetime by Derek Raine and Michael Heller, Nature 297, 27 May 1982, p. 345
429. ‘Creative impulse,’ The Guardian, 20 May 1982
430. Review of Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy by Benjamin Gal-Or, New Scientist, 13 May 1982, p. 439
431. ‘Bounded brainpower,’ Nature 296, 18 March 1982, p. 201
432. ‘Missing matter,’ The Sciences (USA), 22 January 1982, p. 15
433. ‘On being lowered into a black hole,’ New Scientist, 14 January 1982, p. 76
434. ‘A naked truth at the edge of time,’ The Guardian, 10 December 1981
435. ‘What is time?’ The Sciences (USA) 19, November 1979, p. 18
436. ‘The search for the superforce,’ The Guardian, 8 October 1981
437. ‘The ultimate computer,’ Nature 292, 9 July 1981, p. 112
438. Review of Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning by James Dale Barry, New Scientist, 4 June 1981, p. 629
439. ‘Grand bang,’ Nature 291, 28 May 1981, p. 280
440. Review of Some Strangeness in the Proportion by H. Woolf (ed.), Nature 291, 28 May 1981, p. 362
441. ‘Protons: Earth’s built-in obsolescence,’ The Guardian, 21 May 1981
442. Review of Gravity, Black Holes and the Universe by I. Nicolson, Nature 290, 23 April 1981, p. 656
443. Review of Quantum Field Theory by C. Itzykson & J.-B. Zuber, Nature 290, 5 March 1981, p. 74
444. Review of Gravity, Particles & Astrophysics by Paul Wesson, Nature 289, 22 January 1981, p. 332
445. Review of Life Beyond Earth by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro and Earth and Cosmos by R.S. Kandel, Nature 288, 6 November 1980, p. 34
446. ‘The search for gravity waves,’ New Scientist, 30 October 1980, 288
447. ‘The subatomic anarchy show,’ The Guardian, 1 May 1980
448. ‘The origin of the universe,’ The Economist, 12 April 1980, p.67
449. ‘Antigravity,’ Nature 283, 21 February 1980, p. 717
450. ‘Antimatter from space,’ Nature 282, 8 November 1979, p.130
451. Review of Gravitational Curvature by T. Frankel, New Scientist, 11 October 1979, p. xxi
452. ‘Universe in reverse: can time run backwards?’ Second Look, September 1979, p.27
453. ‘Unifying the variety of nature,’ New Scientist, 9 August 1979, p. 436; reprinted as ‘Joining forces in electroweak theory,’ in Building the Universe (ed. Christine Sutton; Basil Blackwell & New Scientist, Oxford 1985) p. 198
454. ‘Infinite problems of the very small,’ New Scientist, 26 July 1979, p. 284
455. Review of Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894-1912 by Thomas Kuhn, New Scientist, 19 July 1979, p. 201
456. ‘Timing time,’ Nature, 279, 24 May 1979, p.290
457. ‘Taking the sigh out of science,’ New Scientist, 3 May 1979, p. 351
458. Review of It’s About Time (BBC1 TV programme) New Scientist, 19 April 1979, p. 203
459. ‘Trouble with time travel,’ Nature, 277, 22 February 1979, p.602
460. ‘Gravitational radiation at last?’ Nature, 277, 8 February 1979, p.430
461. ‘Primaeval magnetic monopoles,’ Nature, 277, 18 January 1979, p.174
462. ‘Chance or choice: is the universe an accident?’ New Scientist, 16 November
1978, p. 506
463. ‘Cosmic heresy?’ Nature, 273, 1 June 1978, p.336
464. ‘Electric universe,’ Nature, 273, 25 May 1978, p.268
465. ‘Supertechnology,’ extract from The Runaway Universe, reprinted in New Scientist, 23 March 1978
466. ‘Smoothing primaeval chaos,’ Nature, 271, 9 February 1978, p.506
467. ‘Gödel and general relativity,’ New Scientist, 26 January 1978, p. 239
468. ‘Primeaval heavy leptons,’ Nature, 269, 13 October 1977, p560
469. ‘Experimenting with controlled gravity,’ Nature, 268, 4 August 1977, p.397
470. ‘Thermodynamic light on black holes,’ New Scientist, 28 July 1977, p. 238
471. ‘Some singular proposals,’ Nature, 266, 3 March 1977, p.12
472. ‘New limits on variability of fundamental physical quantities,’ Nature, 263, 16 September 1976, p.191
473. ‘Exploding black holes,’ Nature, 261, 27 May 1976, p.280
474. ‘Ball lightning,’ Nature, 260, 15 April 1976, p.573
475. ‘Is the universe running away with itself?’ Nature, 257, 9 October 1975, p.444
476. ‘A new theory of the universe,’ Nature, 255, 15 May 1975, p.191
477. ‘Opening up the universe,’ Nature, 253, 20 February 1975, p.594
478. ‘Arrival of the age of Rama,’ Nature, 252, 13 December 1974, p.525
479. ‘Gravitational waves from collapsing stars,’ Nature, 251, 4 October 1974, p.378
480. ‘Can neutron starlight be seen?’ Nature, 251, 13 September 1974, p.99
481. ‘Astrophysics and energy from black holes,’ Nature, 251, 6 September 1974, p.12
482. ‘Dirac completes his theory of large numbers,’ Nature, 250, 9 August 1974, p.460
483. ‘Limited progress at G7,’ Nature, 250, 26 July 1974, p.287
484. ‘How special is the universe,’ Nature, 249, 17 May 1974, p.208
485. ‘Ghost neutrinos emerge from the mathematics,’ Nature 248, 5 April 1974, p.471
486. ‘Limited progress with quantum gravity,’ Nature, 248, 22 March 1974, p.282
487. ‘Have tachyons been observed?’ Nature, 248, 1 March 1974, p.9
488. ‘Search for the superheavies,’ Nature, 246, 9 November 1973, p.65
B. Selection of opinion articles on social, educational and political topics
1. ‘Tiny bones pose humanity’s big questions,’ Science & Theology News (USA) December 2004
2. ‘The need to cater for the precocious before they pass their peak,’ Sydney Morning Herald, 21 December 2004.
3. ‘Invest in destiny,’ Teacher Magazine (Times Education Supplement, London), October 3, 2003, p. 2.
4. ‘Horses for (university) courses,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK), 20 June 2003
5. ‘Global is the only way to go,’ The Advertiser, 17 May 1999
6. ‘Millennium just an accident of evolution,’ The Advertiser, 10 May 1999
7. ‘Future not so shocking,’ The Advertiser, 3 May 1999
8. ‘Sadly, our splendor is a secret,’ The Advertiser, 26 April 1999
9. ‘National pride issue run up the flagpole,’ The Advertiser, 19 April 1999
10. ‘Kosovo is all the world’s concern,’ The Advertiser, 15 April 1999
11. ‘Go all the way with a private Telstra,’ The Advertiser, 12 April 1999
12. ‘The evil within us all,’ The Bulletin, 6 April 1999
13. ‘Kosovo is all the world’s concern,’ ‘Consciousness’ The Advertiser, 5 April 1999
14. ‘Wait for it, the Hilton in the heavens,’ The Advertiser, 29 March 1999
15. ‘The case for a nuclear dump,’ The Advertiser, 27 March 1999
16. ‘A letter from Yehudi Menuhin,’ The Advertiser, 22 March 1999
17. ‘Australia, a society that cares,’ The Advertiser, 15 March 1999
18. ‘Life gushes the press: the reality is different,’ The Advertiser, 8 March 1999
19. ‘Minority rule is not democracy,’ The Advertiser, 1 March 1999
20. ‘A world forum but no SA,’ The Advertiser, 22 February 1999
21. ‘No matter if Bloggs was the Bard,’ The Advertiser, 15 February 1999
22. ‘Time to end sullied Olympics,’ The Advertiser, 8 February 1999
23. ‘No Noah, but maybe a deluge,’ The Advertiser, 1 February 1999
24. ‘The open road for me,’ The Advertiser, 25 January 1999
25. ‘Seeking the real Jesus,’ The Advertiser, 18 January 1999
26. ‘Blair’s euro challenge,’ The Advertiser, 11 January 1999
27. ‘Sputtering in the Year 2000,’ The Advertiser, 4 January 1999
28. ‘That tragic day at Lockerbie,’ The Advertiser, 28 December 1998
29. ‘Chilling menace of bio-war,’ The Advertiser, 21 December 1998
30. ‘Pinochet case sets a precedent,’ The Advertiser, 14 December 1998
31. ‘Telephone directory nightmare,’ The Advertiser, 7 December 1998
32. ‘Centenary salute to folk heroes,’ The Advertiser, 30 November 1998
33. ‘The answer is new cities in the north,’ The Advertiser, 23 November 1998
34. ‘The legal pedants of Adelaide,’ The Advertiser, 16 November 1998
35. ‘Star wars could wreak havoc,’ The Advertiser, 9 November 1998
36. ‘Laying bare ugly double standards,’ The Advertiser, 2 November 1998
37. ‘Vanity has its place in space,’ The Advertiser, 26 October 1998
38. ‘Reach for the sky,’ The Advertiser, 24 October
39. ‘Battling the Asian downturn,’ The Advertiser, 19 October 1998
40. ‘Not a bad election to lose,’ The Advertiser, 12 October 1998
41. ‘Picnic tricks to whop the wasp,’ The Advertiser, 5 October 1998
42. ‘Learn a trade, young man,’ The Advertiser, 28 September 1998
43. ‘Scrap the unfair migrant tax,’ The Advertiser, 21 September 1998
44. ‘If you’re out there, ET, log on,’ The Advertiser, 14 September 1998
45. ‘ Facing the final frontier,’ The Advertiser, 12 September 1998
46. ‘The folly of too many elections,’ The Advertiser, 7 September 1998
47. ‘When size doesn’t matter,’ The Advertiser, 31 August 1998
48. ‘Duped by flying saucery,’ The Advertiser, 24 August 1998
49. ‘The GST we had to have,’ The Advertiser, 17 August 1998
50. ‘Sadly, our TV doesn’t compare,’ The Advertiser, 10 August 1998
51. ‘The clever country? Not yet!’ The Advertiser, 3 August 1998
52. ‘In the beginning, there was…..?’ The Advertiser, 1 August 1998
53. ‘Sad creed of can’t be done,’ The Advertiser, 27 July 1998
54. ‘Technology and the new age of jobs,’ The Advertiser, 20 July 1998
55. ‘A glimpse of Eden in our State,’ The Advertiser, 13 July 1998
56. ‘Dumb drivers! That’s Adelaide,’ The Advertiser, 6 July 1998
57. ‘Asteroid: not if but when,’ The Advertiser, 29 June 1998
58. ‘Evolution of the soccer hooligan,’ The Advertiser, 22 June 1998
59. ‘Surcharge on super is super stupidity,’ The Advertiser, 15 June 1998
60. ‘Nuke-free world is a fantasy,’ The Advertiser, 8 June 1998
61. ‘Scandal of the punters who think they’ll win,’ The Advertiser, 1 June 1998
62. ‘Time to exploit the riches on our coast,’ The Advertiser, 25 May 1998
63. ‘What a pretty city: pity about the graffiti,’ The Advertiser, 18 May 1998
64. ‘It ain’t broke but it still needs fixing,’ The Advertiser, 11 May 1998
65. ‘Who needs visas? Not unfriendly Australia,’ The Advertiser, 4 May 1998
66. ‘A la carte, plus music from hell,’ The Advertiser, 27 April 1998
67. ‘Like it or not, cloning is coming,’ The Advertiser, 20 April 1998
68. ‘A return to Diana’s palace,’ The Advertiser, 13 April 1998
69. ‘Moving to Australia is a wealth hazard,’ The Advertiser, 6 April 1998
70. ‘Apocalypse soon?’ The Advertiser, 30 March 1998
71. ‘Come on in but sorry no job for you,’ The Advertiser, 23 March 1998
72. ‘Before the Big Bang!’ The Advertiser, 16 March 1998
73. ‘Let’s link death and taxes,’ The Advertiser, 9 March 1998
74. ‘The book as a commodity,’ The Advertiser, 2 March 1998
75. ‘Folly of the locked doors,’ The Advertiser, 23 February 1998
76. ‘What’s your poison?’ The Advertiser, 16 February 1998
77. ‘Wharfies’ last stand,’ The Advertiser, 9 February 1998
78. ‘Symbol – or supreme executive?’ The Advertiser, 2 February 1998
79. ‘Taxed by the burden of earning,’ The Advertiser, 26 January 1998
80. ‘Alien probe faces cash blackhole,’ The Advertiser, 19 January 1998
81. ‘Is it pollute or perish?’ The Advertiser, 12 January 1998
82. ‘Longing for chains under the hammer,’ The Weekly Telegraph (international), 16 June 1997.
83. ‘The arts have lost it,’ The Australian, 19 – 20 October 1996
84. ‘The arts have lost it,’ The Sunday Times (UK), 18 August 1996
85. ‘MFP planners failed to grasp a crucial function,’ The Australian, 19 June 1996
86. ‘Foreign funds tax continues to fleece migrants,’ The Weekend Australian, 15-16 June 1996
87. ‘Megacity madness a recipe for disaster,’ The Australian, 17 April 1996
88. ‘Time to tear down the universities?’ The Australian, 12 April 1996
89. ‘A fudge too far,’ The Times Higher Education Supplement 1 December 1995
90. ‘Don’t isolate higher ideals,’ The Australian, 19 April 1995
91. ‘Things are looking up down under: Opportunities beyond the cultural cringe,’ New Scientist, 29 October 1994
92. ‘Science without maths just doesn’t add up,’ The Australian, 1 September 1993
93. ‘The truth about national curriculum,’ The Australian, 28 July 1993
94. ‘Let’s talk about sex,’ Physics World, September 1992
95. ‘Why I chose Australia,’ The Sun-Herald, 12 July 1992
96. The MFP: Are we looking a gift horse in the mouth?’ New Scientist, 14 December 1991, p. 4
97. ‘Fleeing the philistines,’ Eureka Street, July 1991, p.13
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