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‘Quantum mechanics in a nutshell’ by Leonard Susskind ✍️
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Physics In Historyx.comBut what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are able to explain. They know down to many decimal places where those maps are useful guides to reality, and where they aren’t. And when they hit uncharted territory, like quantum mechanics, they explore it carefully
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There are no particles, there are only fields
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Eric Weinstein says string theory has been "blocking the exit" on new physics for the past 40 years and its demise could lead to new advances beyond the Standard Model in areas like wormholes, free energy and dark chemistry https://t.co/nsprqg5ana
Tsarathustrax.com
The danger of reductionist scientific narratives causing existential distress and the responsibility scientists have in their storytelling.
TRANSCRIPT
I receive pretty much daily emails from people who say things like, I've read your paper. I now understand that I'm a collective of cells and furthermore a self-constructing or whatever. And I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm depressed.
I think we have to come to grips with the fact that some people
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New episode w Adam Brown, a lead of Blueshift at DeepMind & theoretical physicist at Stanford.
Stupefying, terrifying, & absolutely fascinating.
On destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, mining black holes, holographic principle,
& path to LLMs which make... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.com