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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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Physics Can Fix This

Category: Academia

How physics provides the key to solving the world financial crisis.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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