#physics
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Nothing is Real : Amanda Gefter is Thinking About Life, the Universe and Everything
Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is a coming of age story—not only for an exceptional science writer, but for the entire cosmos itself.
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Asymptotic Freedom
An asymptote is a line that a curve approaches more and more closely as the curve extends toward infinity.
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A Quantum of Feynman in Neal Stephenson’s Polostan
Polostan, like anything from Stephenson’s pen, is an exquisite read.
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A Conversation With Guido Tonelli
Guido Tonelli is an author and an experimental physicist. His team at CERN was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman
The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.
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Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.