What is Interesting in the Philosophy of Physics?
Philosophers of physics may have experienced this problem. You know you’re interested in a particular question about physics. You come face to face with the mountain of literature on the…
Read moreHow Special Relativity Thwarts Eternalism (And More)
Image Credit: John D. Norton INTRODUCTION. The image above illustrates a well-known argument due to Rietdijk and Putnam, which says that Special Relativity implies Eternalism (also called the “Block Universe”…
Read moreUpdate on the LHC: Still No Mini-Black Holes
The new CERN press release has finally come out, with the latest report on the (nearly-go-for-launch) Large Hadron Collider. No surprises, of course. The major new result is strong evidence…
Read moreCall for Suggestions: Greatest Physics Books of the Last 25 Years
As Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance has pointed out, Entertainment Weekly is weighing in on the Greatest Books of the Last 25 Years. Like Sean, I am a bit disappointed…
Read moreGet Started Learning General Relativity Online
General Relativity is the theory of gravitation introduced by Einstein in 1915, and developed throughout the 20th century. And you’ve decided you want to learn it. But why spend hundreds…
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