How Time Really Passes

…out the world. This does not mean that our apprehension of passage can be reduced to the physical description of passage, or vice versa. Rather, our conclusion should be that both the experience and the physics are very likely reflective of the same phenomenon. Physics is not devoid of passage. It is even more evidence for its existence. —————– 1. This is not to ignore the difficult problem of specifying, and justifying, the conditions under which…

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Curie’s Principle: Not a theorem, Not even for Ismael

…principle has still not been thoroughly explored. Most treatments have focused on his (1894) reflections, cited above. But the principle also appeared in one of the founding articles on the Piezoelectric Effect, which Curie wrote with his brother in 1882 (see pg.247). Very little historical work has been done on this article that I know of, and remains ripe for the picking for a (ideally French-reading) researcher or student. Moreover, a symmetry…

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Get Started Learning General Relativity Online

…s and philosophy of general relativity, all of which is available for free online. If you know of any online resources that are not on this list, suggest them in the comments and I will add them to the list! Contents Non-mathematical introductions to general relativity Mathematical introductions to general relativity Philosophy of general relativity Other general relativity references. Non-mathematical introductions to general relativity Einstein…

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Get Started Reading Books and Articles on the Cheap

…or less than 15 per book — which is still much less than an original (even used!) textbook. Finally, if you’re too lazy to do all this yourself, you can just have the whole job done at FedEx or the UPS Store. Tell them what you want printed, and ask for a spiral binding job. The price should still be less than $20 per textbook. Happy reading! Soul Physics is authored by Bryan W. Roberts. Thanks for subscribing. Want more Soul Physics? Try the Soul…

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Special: What’s With the Economy.

…n for this goes back to when BurgerBee first became a restaurant. They wanted to buy a building to make and sell burgers in. The wealthy Scrooge McDuck had enough money to buy buildings. So they struck the following deal. McDuck gave BurgerBee the money to buy a building for their burger joint (say, 100,000 dollars). In return, BurgerBee gave McDuck a little certificate, which says that BurgerBee will pay McDuck MUCH MORE than the original amount…

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