#physics
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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.
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Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words
It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.
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Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord
When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”
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Quantum Teleportation and the Speed of Light
It remains true that “nothing” can travel faster than the speed of light, even though the definition of “nothing” has been qualified.
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Not Just a Measure of Our Ignorance
Reading Dance of the Photons by physics Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger. Loving it.