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| | In this post I give a brief assessment of progress in the past decade, triggered by a recent article in Forbes Magazine that mentions my view on the matter. Waging War On Quantum - A Forbes Article by Arthur Herman Arthur Herman is a popular Historian and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. On...
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| | So I've written an article about the above questionfor PBS's website---a sort of tl;dr version of my 2005 survey paperNP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality, butupdated with new material about the simulation of quantum field theories and about AdS/CFT. Go over there, read the article (it's free), then come back here to talk about it if...
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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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| From the outside it might seem like physics and mathematics are a match made in heaven. In practice, it feels more like physicists are given a very short blanket made of math, and when they stretch it to cover their heads, their feet are freezing, and vice versa. Physicists turn reality into numbers. They process...