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Vanilla entertainment
One of the first, and most important in hindsight, bits of advice I got from the journalist Siddharth Varadarajan was about how to choose what to write: “Write what you’d like to read” (Dan Fagin would later add the important … Continue reading
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The intricacies of being sold on string theory
If you are seeking an appreciation for the techniques of string theory, then Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe could be an optional supplement. If, on the other hand, you want to explore the epistemological backdrop against which string theory proclaimed its … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, Brian Greene, Edward Witten, Lorentzian contractions, Paul Aspinwall, principle of relativity, Quantum mechanics, science communication, string theory, superstrings, The Elegant Universe, time dilation
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