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Good writing is an atom
The act of writing well is like an atom, or the universe. There is matter but it is thinly distributed, with lots of empty space in between. Removing this seeming nothingness won’t help, however. Its presence is necessary for things … Continue reading
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Tagged dark energy, electrons, galaxy, good writing, Hubble constant, neutrons, protons, science journalism, science writing, universe, vacuum, vacuum energy, void
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The philosophies in physics
As a big week for physics comes up–a July 4 update by CERN on the search for the Higgs boson followed by ICHEP ’12 at Melbourne–I feel really anxious as a small-time proto-journalist and particle-physics-enthusiast. If CERN announces the discovery … Continue reading
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Tagged classical mechanics, deterministic causality, eigenstate, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Higgs mechanism, philosophy of physics, probability, quantum field theory, Quantum mechanics, Standard Model, universe
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