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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
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String Theory:
Martin Rees Against Fundamentalism
Category: Physics
There's a really good article from Martin Rees in the latest issue of Seed, on the scientific challenges that won't be affected by the LHC: The LHC hasn't yet provided its first results, the much-anticipated answers to questions we've been...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:01 PM • 1 Comments •
Journalists Are Amplifiers
Category: Physics
A few days ago, Bee put up a post titled Do We Need Science Journalists?, linking back to Bora's enormous manifesto from the first bit of the Horgan-Johnson bloggingheads kerfuffle. My first reaction was "Oh, God, not again..." but her...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:32 AM • 24 Comments •
Parallel Universes and Morality
Category: Television
The claim that an infinite universe, parallel universes, or the Many-World Interpretation of quantum theory have something to say about ethics is not quite as stupid as the "Atheism is evil because without God there is no morality" argument. It comes pretty close, though.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:46 AM • 33 Comments •
Nothing But Uncertainty
Category: Experiment
A new search for deviations from Newtonian gravity measures nothing to a better precision than ever before. And you thought climate science had a problem with uncertainty...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:25 AM • 3 Comments •
Strings and Philately
Category: String Theory
Over at Evolving Thoughts, John Wilkins pokes string theorists: Ernst Rutherford, the "father" of nuclear physics, once airily declared "In science there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting". By this he meant that the theory of physics...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:15 AM • 2 Comments •
Lemonade from the Landscape
Category: String Theory
There's a piece by Michael Dine in Physics Today this month with the ambitious title "String theory in the era of the Large Hadron Collider, thus combining two of my very favorite topics... I was going to give it a...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:10 AM • 6 Comments •
Turtles and Strings: Where Does Science Stop?
Category: String Theory
The infamous Davies op-ed has been collected together with some responses at edge.org, and one of the responses is by Sean Carroll, who reproduces his response at Cosmic Variance. Sean's a smart guy, and I basically agree with his argument,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:16 AM • 10 Comments •
What is String Theory?
Category: Physics
The title of this post is a famous question (posed, for example, by Joe Polchinski) which is modeled after an even more famous question by Ken Wilson, "What is Quantum Field Theory?". I certainly can't answer the first question, but...
Posted by Aaron Bergman at 2:18 PM • 23 Comments •
Ask a String Theorist: Update
Category: String Theory
Thanx to everyone for all the interesting questions in the previous thread. I apologize for not being able to answer every one of them. I just arrived at a workshop on Long Island, and I'm also feeling a bit under...
Posted by Aaron Bergman at 5:57 PM • 4 Comments •
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