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| | Last year, in a series of posts, I gave you a tour of quantum field theory, telling you some of what weunderstand and some of what we don't. I still haven't told you the role that string theory plays inquantum field theory today, but I am going to give you a brief tour of string...
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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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| | 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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| Climate Etc. has now attracted a critical (and growing) mass of "regulars." I would like to try what Jeff Id did over at the Air Vent on his Reader Background thread. I will eventually provide a button for this thread on the top bar (next to blog rules), so it is easy to refer to...