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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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Warning: long post! Abstract: Neil deGrasse Tyson has argued that Isaac Newton's religious views stymied his science, preventing him from discovering what Laplace showed a century later - that theplanetary orbits are stable against perturbation. This conclusion is highly dubious. Newton did develop perturbation theory, and applied it to the moon's orbit. His lack of...
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson often claims the Islamic Golden Age of science was ended in the twelfth century by Al-Ghazali. But historians disagree.
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Every visible thing in the world is put under the charge of an angel. - St Augustine In 2002 the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph reported that the...
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