#physics
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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.
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Doing Physics vs. Sorting Stamps
Theoretical physics is cutting its ties to reality.
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Heat of the Moment
There might be an unavoidable trade-off between what we think of as weather and what we think of as time.