Physicist and cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein finished her latest book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie, shortly before the 2024 election. By the time it came out this April, the American scientific landscape had been radically altered (some might say “ravaged”) by the Trump Administration.
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As a result of this time lapse, on some pages, the book’s almost mirthful exploration of physics via a diverse range of pop culture references can inspire a certain nostalgia for the era in which it was penned. At the same time, in the current research environment, where grant funding for
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