Watch the LHC status updates live
The Large Hadron Collider has finally begun collecting data for 7 TeV collisions. They’ve set up an interesting live feed, in which you can keep an eye on the collision…
Read moreConferences for Philosophers of Physics, Summer 2010
April 30 – May 2. Washington, D.C. New Directions in Foundations of Physics. Speakers: Michel Janssen, Tony Duncan, Elise Crull, Fernando Brandao, Bill Unruh, Dan Browne, Scott Aaronson, Valerio Scarani,…
Read moreBob Batterman moves to University of Pittsburgh
Bob Batterman, currently at the University of Western Ontario, has been hired by the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Philosophy. One more reason to love history and philosophy of science at the…
Read moreTwo Pictures of Laws and Initial Conditions
Chris Wüthrich over at Taking Up Spacetime has an interesting post about laws and initial conditions, and an old objection by Sklar (1984). The post started me thinking about an…
Read moreReasons to love the "Dark Energy Task Force"
It’s official: the words ‘dark,’ ‘energy,’ ‘task,’ and ‘force’ have all been used in the title of a single scientific paper. The “Report of the Dark Energy Task Force” is…
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