#physics
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The Alluring Escapism of Eschatology
What we lost when science stopped delivering closure.
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What’s in a Name
Scientific naming often wanders between aptonym and nonsense. Asymptotic freedom sits somewhere in between: oddly beautiful once you know what it means.
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Backfeeding
I rather like the odd word backfeeding. It restores a sense of movement and reciprocity to a term that had gone static.
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No Strings Attached : How Modern Physics Came Unmoored
String theory has dominated physics for nearly fifty years — despite its lack of experimental proof.
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The Determinist’s Dilemma
To call Sabine Hossenfelder’s perspective radically reductionist would be an understatement.
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Elementary : From Hadron Bootstrapping to the Implicate Order
If there’s nothing fundamental about ‘elementary’ particles, if nature never bottoms out, then what remains to hold on to?