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Category Archives: Physics
Physicists Confirm Possible Discovery of 5th Force of Nature
It’s incredible, the speed with which new discoveries in physics are taking place: Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to a paper published … Continue reading
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A Fight for the Soul of Science
In “A Fight for the Soul of Science“, Natalie Wolchover provides an overview of contemporary debates in modern physics (aka cosmology): Nowadays, as several philosophers at the workshop said, Popperian falsificationism has been supplanted by Bayesian confirmation theory, or Bayesianism, … Continue reading
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Multiverse
Amir Alexander reviews Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by By Max Tegmark: Zooming through a Stockholm intersection on his bicycle one morning, 18-year-old Max Tegmark never saw the truck that hit him. The blast … Continue reading
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Max Tegmark: Mathematical Reality of Reality
A physicist (with a cool name) provides an update on ideas proposed some years ago by Eugene Wigner in “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“: Max Tegmark has a theory about reality. According to Max, who is … Continue reading
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