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Climate change, like quantum physics, will strain language
One of the defining features of quantum mechanics is that it shows up human language, and thought supported by that language, to be insufficient and limited. Many of the most popular languages of the world, including Tamil, Hindi and English, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science
Tagged causality, chaos theory, climate change, emergent phenomena, language, logograms, quantum entanglement, superposition
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Broken clocks during the pandemic
Proponents of conspiracy theories during the pandemic, at least in India, appear to be like broken clocks: they are right by coincidence, without the right body of evidence to back their claims. Two of the most read articles published by … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged causality, conspiracy theories, COVID-19 pandemic, falsifiability, lab-leak hypothesis, Luc Montagnier, The Wire Science, zoonotic spillover
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Good luck with your Maggi
You know when you’re cooking a packet of Maggi noodles in a saucepan, and you haven’t used enough water or don’t move the stuff soon enough from the pan to a plate once it’s done cooking, and you’re basically left … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged 2020, causality, COVID-19, epidemic, Maggi Noodles, memories, pandemic, Paul Feyerabend, Penrose process, sense of time, The Wire, Thucydides
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An Upanishadic lesson for modern science?
Do the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads lack the “baggage of biography” – to borrow Amit Chaudhuri’s words – because we don’t know who the authors, outside of the mythology, are or – as Chaudhuri writes in a new essay … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture, Science
Tagged Amit Chaudhuri, Bhagavad Gita, causality, creation, creator, disinterestedness, Eastern Philosophy, genius, genius construct, Gita Chadha, Immanuel Kant, impersonality, Isa Upanishad, Kena Upanishad, Lawrence M Krauss, modern science, New Critical, Philosophy of Science, power, Richard Feynman, scientific genius, The Life of Science, TS Eliot, Upanishads, Western philosophy
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