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4gravitons.com
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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... | |
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scienceblogs.com
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| | | | | Isaac Newton was a total nutjob. Did you know that he tried to pop his own eyeball out with a knitting needle as a part of an experiment? That he nearly blinded himself staring into the sun? That he was an avid alchemist? Why do we pay so much respect to a person who was clearly mentally IMBALANCED? Why would anyone take such a total lunatic seriously? It can't be because of science - his science was a sloppy mess that he had a hard time explaining to anyone else. | |
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qbnets.wordpress.com
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| | | | | It is often said that Albert Einstein had bad math grades in school. There is some truth to that assertion, but unless one delves into the details of Einstein's life, one might get the impression that Einstein was the most amazing late bloomer in the history of mankind. Not at all. To begin with, let... | |
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www.versobooks.com
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| | | Published in 1997,Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution edited by Jim Davis,Thomas Hirschl, and Michael Stack offers a heterodox set of Marxist reflections on the rapid changes in labor processes and social relations wrought by what the editors then called "for lack of a better p | ||
