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| | Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
| | profmattstrassler.com
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| | Musings on how science is really carried out. Why the Tevatron is so busy with hints of new physics: Thoughts on what happens when experiments come to an end. (7/20/11) Scientific skepticism isn't just politics: Why physicists were skeptical of the claims by the Opera experiment of faster-than-light neutrinos. (10/17/11)
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| | When Steven Weinberg died last month, the world lost one of its most profound thinkers.
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| Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...