Matt Strassler

Matt James Strassler (born December 1966) is an American theoretical physicist and science communicator. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Quotes

• What physics explains the enormous disparity between the gravitational scale and the typical mass scale of the elementary particles?
  • Problems for the Next Millennium, Strings, July 10-15, 2000, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• ... a very special type of falsehood common in explanations of physics for nonexperts ... a physics fib or, more simply, a phib.
  Phibs are often found in articles and books about the universe. They arise when well-intentioned physicists, faced with a nonexpert's question, are trying to concoct a short, memorable tale to serve as a compromise between giving no answer at all and giving a correct but incomprehensible one.
  • "Overture". Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean. 2024. ISBN 154160329X. 

External links

Encyclopedic article on Matt Strassler on Wikipedia