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Lighting the way with Parrondo’s paradox
In science, paradoxes often appear when familiar rules are pushed into unfamiliar territory. One of them is Parrondo’s paradox, a curious mathematical result showing that when two losing strategies are combined, they can produce a winning outcome. This might sound … Continue reading
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Tagged Brownian motion, Brownian ratchet, cancerous tumours, chemotherapy, Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet, game theory, kinesin, low-dose metronomic, maximum tolerated dose, myosin, Parrondo's paradox, randomness, Richard Feynman
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Debating the business of beauty in ‘Dreams of a Final Theory’
In his book Dreams of a Final Theory, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg discusses the various aspects of the journey toward a unifying theory in fundamental physics. One crucial aspect is the aesthetic of such a theory, and Weinberg’s principal contention … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, beauty, critical exponents, Dreams of a Final Theory, framling, randomness, renormalization, Speaker for the Dead, Steven Weinberg, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, thermal demagnetization, utlänning, varelse
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