Stories by Joel David Hamkins

Joel David Hamkins is the author of The Book of Infinity.

A crop of a portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans.

Space & PhysicsAugust 15, 2026

388 years ago Galileo worked out why human giants can’t exist—and explained a law of physics

Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don’t exist helps explain the natural world

Joel David Hamkins, The MIT Press Reader