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The calculus of creative discipline
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. World-building is dull. World-building literalises the urge to invent. World-building gives an unnecessary permission for acts of writing (indeed, for acts of reading). World-building numbs … Continue reading
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Tagged classical mechanics, creative discipline, critical points, Dan Shechtman, differential calculus, EPR paradox, fantasy fiction, Imre Lakatos, JK Rowling, Karl Popper, literary criticism, M John Harrison, Malazan Book of the Fallen, mathematical analysis, nerdism, Niels Bohr, Paul Feyerabend, Philosophy of Science, quasicrystals, replication crisis, smooth functions, Steven Erikson, Thomas Kuhn, Viriconium, world-building
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Disentangling entanglement
There has been considerable speculation if the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for physics, due to be announced at 2.30 pm IST on October 8, will include Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger. They’ve both made significant experimental contributions related … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Aspect, Albert Einstein, Anton Zeilinger, Boris Podolsky, communication loophole, detection loophole, EPR paradox, John Clauser, John Stewart Bell, Nathan Rosen, Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize for physics, quantum entanglement, Rober Hanson, spooky action at a distance, Wolf Prize
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Roundup of missed stories – May 23, 2015
I’ve missed writing/commenting on so many science papers/articles in the two weeks following the launch of The Wire. The concepts in many of them would’ve made fun explainers, some required a takedown or two, and one had surprising ethical and … Continue reading
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Tagged BICEP2, EPR paradox, Max Planck Digital Library, open-access publishing, roundup, Sierpinski triangles, social anxiety disorder
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A closet of hidden phenomena
Science has been rarely counter-intuitive to our understanding of reality, and its elegant rationalism at every step of the way has been reassuring. This is why Bell’s theorem has been one of the strangest concepts of reality scientists have come across: … Continue reading
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Tagged classical physics, EPR paradox, John Stuart Bell, locality, quantum entanglement, realism, unification of forces
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