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Martin Bojowald, Once before Time, is one of the most recent proponents of this approach.2
Peter Baksa • The Point of Power
Physicists come off looking particularly bad. After attending a Stephen Hawking lecture about fantastical ideas like wormholes and superstrings and “mini-superspace,” Horgan concludes that Hawking is “less a truth seeker than an artist, an illusionist, a cosmic joker” whose work “can keep us awestruck. But it is not science.”
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
On beauty in science: “He’s a very intuitive person,” says Niemi. “He sees the equations, but he sees beyond the equation. He thinks immediately, does this make sense in a wider context? … He smells the equation, if it smells good or not. Or if it has the beauty.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
His idea was to take physics beyond its age-old dualism of laws versus conditions, of evolution versus creation.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
His idea was to take physics beyond its age-old dualism of laws versus conditions, of evolution versus creation.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
subjective probabilities
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
subjective probabilities
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Physicists and mathematicians want to discover regularities. People say, what use is disorder. But people have to know about disorder if they are going to deal with it.