Content tagged physics
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Unusual response from Stephen Hawking, in response to a question about whether he thought he’d get a Nobel Prize: “If the LHC were to produce little … gulfstream/2512
Essay on the iconoclastic Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and his involvement in the making of an early parallel supercomputer. gulfstream/2442
Headline slightly better than the reality, but: “Lab fireball ‘may be black hole’.” gulfstream/1713
Bikini-clad doll falls into spheres … mesmerising. gulfstream/1781
The awesomeness of ‘super daters’: “He found that ‘super daters’, people who have many short relationships, have a good effect on others’ … gulfstream/1816
Physically possible (i.e. gravitationally possible) arrangements of planets. gulfstream/1838
Jim Holt’s review of two books critical of string theory. (Good overview of the theory and its weaknesses.) I would’ve thought that two books on string … gulfstream/2163
Nobel Prize for Literature committee is still fucking up citations. The subjugating power of cliches? What? (Compare them to the citations for … gulfstream/1584
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The Invisible Ingredient in Every Kitchen - New York Times
Quantum interrogation | Cosmic Variance
Seed: Prime Numbers Get Hitched
The String Theory Backlash | Cosmic Variance
string theory
good explanation of the string theory deal
