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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | I've been increasingly tempted to make this blog into a forum solely for responding to the posts at Overcoming Bias. (Possible new name: "Wallowing in Bias.") Two days ago, Robin Hanson pointed to a fascinating paper by Bousso, Harnik, Kribs, and Perez, on predicting the cosmological constant from an "entropic" version of the anthropic principle.... | |
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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Why did physicists expect to see something new at the LHC, more than just the Higgs boson? Mostly, because of something called naturalness. Naturalness, broadly speaking, is the idea that there shouldn't be coincidences in physics. If two numbers that appear in your theory cancel out almost perfectly, there should be a reason that they... | |
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profmattstrassler.com
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| | | | | Matt Strassler [April 12, 2012] It is common that, when reading about the universe or about particle physics, one will come across a phrase that somehow refers to ``matter and energy'', as though they are opposites, or partners, or two sides of a coin, or the two classes out of which everything is made. This | |
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theconversation.com
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| | | The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise. | ||
