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| | | | Before this week's post: a former colleague of mine from CEA Paris-Saclay, Sylvain Ribault, posted a dialogue last week presenting different perspectives on academic publishing. One of the highlights of my brief time at the CEA were the times I got to chat with Sylvain and others about the future forms academia might take. He... | |
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| | | | The 2022 Nobel Prize was announced this week, awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science. I've complained in the past about the Nobel prize awarding to "baskets" of loosely related topics. This year, though, the three... | |
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| | | | Philip Ball's Beyond Weird is the best popular survey I've seen of the contemporary state of discussions about the "interpretation" of quantum mechanics. It appeared earlier... | |
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| | Is the universe fine-tuned? In other words, were physical laws and constants of nature somehow chosen to allow complex life to arise? |