Matt Strassler

Ph.D. Stanford University 1993

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.

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  • ... 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.
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