Announcement: Meet Me in North Carolina
*Beeeeeeeeep* (Is this thing on?) Ahem. Are there any philosophers of science out there who, on the weekend of February 27th, will be either (a) attending the NCPS/SCSP annual meeting,…
Read moreHow would negative mass behave in a gravitational field?
Answer: exactly the same way positive mass would. That’s unusual, because if you try to push a negative mass, it behaves in surprising ways. While a positive mass will accelerate…
Read moreSoul Physics: Best of 2009
If you’re new to Soul Physics, try some of our classic posts! The following posts received either a lot of traffic or a lot of comments (or both) in 2009.…
Read moreGet Started Handling Academic Citations Like a Pro
Using a Mac to do your academic work? Here’s a brief tutorial on how to optimize your day-to-day dealings with academic citations, by integrating Bibdesk, Textmate, Quicksilver and Scholar. Below,…
Read moreIce water on closed timelike curves
Today, let’s kick off our shoes and relax our standards for what counts as a reasonable spacetime. Let’s talk about spacetimes allowing for a certain kind of time travel, called…
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