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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Nima Arkani-Hamed shows up surprisingly rarely in popular science books. A major figure in my former field, Nima is extremely quotable (frequent examples include "spacetime is doomed" and "the universe is not a crappy metal"), but those quotes don't seem to quite have reached the popular physics mainstream. He's been interviewed in books by physicists,... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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meaningness.com
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| | | | | Explore the ideas of Meaningness in greater depth by reading the books that inspired it | |
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tritonstation.com
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| | | In the last post, I noted some of the sociological overtones underpinning attitudes about dark matter and modified gravity theories. I didn't get as far as the more scientifically interesting part, which illustrates a common form of reasoning in physics. About modified gravity theories, Bertone & Tait state "the only way these theories can be... | ||
