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Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
The combination on the left-hand side is the Einstein tensor.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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
In real-world Hamiltonians, position is the variable in which interactions are local.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
the sum of something simple plus a tiny perturbation, solve everything exactly for the simple part, then add in the rest bit by bit.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman once said that he could only determine whether he understood something if he could give an introductory lecture on it.