Physicist and Science Writer. Author of 19 books, most recently THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE: ERNST MACH, LUDWIG BOLTZMANN, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE ESSENCE OF REALITY
Announcing my new book THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE.
Journey back in time and witness an epic struggle between two scientific geniuses over the very nature of reality. History of physics at its most riveting!
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Announcing my new book THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE.
Journey back in time and witness an epic struggle between two scientific geniuses over the very nature of reality. History of physics at its most riveting!
Now available for preorder:
https://t.co/uaVlLxyg3W
https://t.co/qNwHAS3XCt
https://t.co/FGcKD7dxfu
https://t.co/mEw4Oq8inw
https://t.co/IqCB0rkH70
https://t.co/UKxSY8SUye
Scientists with their dogs:
Albert Einstein
Erwin Schrödinger*
Richard Feynman
Ivan Pavlov
*Yes, Schrödinger actually had a dog, not a cat. It was a collie named Burschie (Laddie).
Scientists with their dogs:
Albert Einstein
Erwin Schrödinger*
Richard Feynman
Ivan Pavlov
*Yes, Schrödinger actually had a dog, not a cat. It was a collie named Burschie (Laddie).
Mathematician Kurt Gödel was one of Albert Einstein's best friends. He found a strange solution to Einstein's general theory of relativity that modelled a rotating universe which allows backward time travel. He presented the solution to Einstein on his birthday.
Note that the idea was purely hypothetical, and hasn't been shown to have any connection with physical reality. Still, it has inspired other hypothetical schemes for backward time travel.
Physicist Ernst Mach's highly unusual self-portrait
Mach sketched himself while lying on his sofa and only looking out of his left-eye. The sketch reflected his life-long interest in symmetry and perception.
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'A human being is part of the Universe.. limited in time and space.
He experiences himself.. as something separate, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion'
-Albert Einstein
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Tributes at Bryn Mawr College to brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether, who spent her final years there. Amongst her many accomplishments, she revolutionized modern physics methods by identifying continuous symmetry groups with conservation laws. The 3rd image is her grave marker
'I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.'
-Albert Einstein,
From 'The Einstein Theory of Living,' New York Times, March 12, 1944: https://t.co/x2UcbH1nQm
Rock Songs Based on Science Fiction Themes:
Rocket Man (John/Taupin): Ray Bradbury Story
Starship Trooper (Yes): Robert Heinlein Novel
Watcher of the Skies (Genesis): Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
Time After Time (Lauper/Hyman): Time travel film with fictional HG Wells
Titans of quantum electrodynamics, Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman, conversing at a gravitational physics conference held in Jablonna, Poland (near Warsaw) in 1962.
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Richard Feynman's Restaurant Riddle
Feynman once wondered how many dishes at restaurants one should try before settling on the tastiest (and maximizing the overall quality of one's meals). New mathematical result offers a solution
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Imagine going to a luscious dinner in which famous chefs present their unique handcrafted creations
Then picture those dishes being mixed together into a single glop and being served by a smiling amalgam of all of those chefs
That's what generative AI represents for creativity
Tributes at Bryn Mawr College to brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether, who spent her final years there. Amongst her many accomplishments, she revolutionized modern physics methods by identifying continuous symmetry groups with conservation laws. The 3rd image is her grave marker
What brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was like as a @BrynMawrCollege professor, according to her student Ruth McKee:
'The strange phenomenon was that from our point of view she was one of us, almost as if she too were thinking about the theorems for the first time'
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