Matt Farr

Philosophy of science/physics/time/causality @CambridgeHPS @WolfsonCam • Mostly in the better place:

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Overheard a university student say “Arctic Monkeys were my dad’s favourite band when I was little.” The passage of time is relentless, unfathomable, cruel, and unforgiving.

[Matt Farr @philosofarr]

In one month I’ll be running the London Marathon (my first ever marathon) in memory of my parents, raising money for Macmillian Caring Locally. @LondonMarathon @macmillanlocal @JustGiving

https://t.co/fSSufuTOKM

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This used to be a fun, informative, useful and social (!) site. But time passes, things change, and there's no point clinging on to something that patently no longer exists. My account will stay for now, but I'll only be posting at BlueSky https://t.co/JsXh5am0dM 👋

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Movie age rating sites for kids are brilliant sources of deadpan comedy.

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Evening view from Free School Lane @CambridgeHPS

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@seanonolennon @afisheverywhere Plenty of completely accepted bits of contemporary physics seem ridiculous though. The Earth orbiting the Sun seemed ridiculous. Non-circular orbits, subatomic particles, etc.

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The ginkgo at @Catz_Cambridge in full colour 👌

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No one seems to read my tweets (Xs) anymore, plus this site ever more resembles a chaotic inferno of hate. So, you can follow me in the nicer place with the blue sky.

[Matt Farr @philosofarr]

It blows my mind that I only just recently discovered this fact about leap years on the Gregorian Calendar. In short, they're not technically every four years; they just happen to have been in each of our lifetimes.

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One for the philosophers…

[Whipple Museum @WhippleMuseum]

🌟Coming soon! 🌟
New exhibition, from Monday 25 November.
The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age

@DeptofPhysics
Find out via What's On UCM:
https://t.co/QHBe4HLICy

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A new thing I wrote, based on a public lecture on time and relativity theory. “From time to spacetime to no time? The philosophy of relativity theory” https://t.co/4bfY3Ukael via @ioppublishing

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FYI I can be found on BlueSky
https://t.co/JsXh5alsoe

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Bicycle being repaired, so took the scenic walk to work.

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Nice example of an optical illusion in the wild there.

[Casemiro @Casemiro]

🔴 Feeling the red passion in Old Trafford !!

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The Pitt Building in its red mode. @Cambridge_Uni

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@philosophybites @BBCNews Very carefully chosen.

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Nice starts to successive weekends 👍🏃🏻 @parkrunUK

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#OnThisDay Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays, and possibly also latte art.

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Beautiful

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

Parallel rows appear to tilt alternately.