Tag Archives: naturalness

Some notes on empiricism, etc.

Posted on March 10, 2017 by

The Wire published a story about the ‘atoms of Acharya Kanad‘ (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university in Gujarat claimed an ancient Indian sage had put forth the theory of atoms centuries before John Dalton showed up). The story in … Continue reading →

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Where’s all the antimatter? New CERN results show the way.

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

If you look outside your window at the clouds, the stars, the planets, all that you will see is made of matter. However, when the universe was born, there were equal amounts of matter and antimatter. So where has all … Continue reading →

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There’s something wrong with this universe.

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

I’ve gone on about natural philosophy, the philosophy of representation, science history, and the importance of interdisciplinary perspectives when studying modern science. There’s something that unifies all these ideas, and I wouldn’t have thought of it at all hadn’t I … Continue reading →

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