Category: physics
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Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead
My thoughts after reading The Grand Design by Hawking and Mlodinow.
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God as a Cosmic Operator
Quotes from Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science. History of discussions on stability of the the solar system. Newton believed that God must make corrections to keep stability.
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Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Existence of Pi
A thought experiment to discuss whether Pi exists. Physicalism vs. Platonism.
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Entropy and Information
Critique on using information entropy in thermodynamics.
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David Lindley: The End of Physics
Quotes from David Lindley, The End of Physics. The Myth of a Unified Theory.
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Quantum mechanics and Archimedes
A couple of citations from Lucio Russo – The Forgotten Revolution, How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn.
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Robert B. Laughlin: A Different Universe
Citations from Robert B. Laughlin – A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Up.
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Peter Woit: Not Even Wrong
Quotes from Woit – Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law. Quantum Mechanics. On Beauty and Difficulty.