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Category Archives: Notes on Science
Notes on Literature: Chance, Fundamental Laws, and Narratives
Despite being a talk by no less an intellectual personage than Murray Gell-Mann himself, Beauty, truth and … physics? is a warm, charming, clear, no-nonsense, and non-technical exposition of the aesthetic framework underlying the laws of fundamental physics. Yet, that’s not … Continue reading
Notes on Literature / Quotes: Radio Sets, Steampunk
I have written before (here) about what I believe underlies the enduring pop-cultural fascination with the speculative/alternate-historical fiction genre known as Steampunk. My opinion in a nutshell is this: In a world where the technologies driving it are fast becoming … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Links and Quotes, Notes on Literature, Notes on Science, Science, Thoughts on Science
Tagged Books, Genius, James Gleick, literature, quotes, radio, science, Science Fiction, steampunk
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Notes on Reading: Reading Lives
I feel the fundamental question underlying biography reading is: Why? Why the life of this person? Why only this person? Why Murray Gell-Mann but not John Archibald Wheeler? Why Isaac Asimov but not Robert Anson Heinlein? Why Richard Feynman but not Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Musings, Notes on Biography, Notes on Reading, Notes on Science, Science
Tagged biography, Borges, john wheeler, Reading
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Notes on Science: Let There Be Light!: An Irreverent and Incomplete Narrative of Physics in 610 words
Everything is a process at some level. – Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen in The Science of Discworld With this post I intend to initiate—what I hope will become—a recurrent theme in this blog: the crystallisation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1905, Albert Einstein, Beethoven, Corpuscular Theory of Light, David Mitchell, Electromagnetic Theory, Electromagnetic Waves, Eroica, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, James Clerk Maxwell, Light, Maxwell's Equations, Michael Faraday, Narratives, Newton, Particles, Physics, Principia, Principia Mathematica, Quantum Theory, Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld, Wave Theory of Light
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