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How Is Science Even Possible?
...and physics is so powerful in its explanations makes another assumption. That assumption is reductionism. This goes back to another quote of another founder of modern physics, Paul Dirac, who...
‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality
...where previous work in physics let its metaphysics go unacknowledged, in Bell’s work the two were truly and explicitly inseparable. The theorem was not about any particular theory of physics....
Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos
...a course from Bob Cousins, Professor Cousins on, like, particle physics. Like, you know, the upper division Intro to Particle Physics where you learn about quarks and color. And I’m...
At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law
...appeared in models of the wriggling perimeter of a bacterial colony and other kinds of random growth. Before long, it was showing up all over physics and mathematics. “The big...
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out...
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
...physics as “the UV,” drawing an analogy with infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of light. In the 1960s and ’70s, the particle physics titans Kenneth Wilson and Steven Weinberg put their...
The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology
...theory in ecology that applies insights from physics to the study of the environment. John Harte, a professor of ecology at the University of California, Berkeley, has a wry, wizened...
How to Hang Far Out Over the Edge
...to project past the edge of the table? Can you derive a formula for the maximum overhang possible for n blocks? Those who feel intimidated by the physics can relax....
Theories of Everything, Mapped
...be answered in pursuit of the theory of everything. Our map of the frontier of fundamental physics, built by the interactive developer Emily Fuhrman, weights questions roughly according to their...