…symbol with a front-slash; so in this example, I’ll enter \delta into that box. 3. The δ symbol itself should have already automatically appeared in the “With” box on the right. 4. Make sure the “Formatted Text” dial is selected if you want to preserve the italics and other formatting you used. 5. Click ok. That’s it! Whenever you enter \delta into Microsoft word, it will automatically be replaced by δ. Now, just repeat this process for each of th…
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…e pleasant. Use Google to search philsci archive. Google is a far superior search engine. Why use anything else? Enter your search keywords into Google, followed by this string: site:philsci-archive.pitt.edu This will return a Google search for your keywords, restricted to Philsci archive. Trust me, this is a real pain-reliever: for example, searching for “van fraassen” returns baloney on Philsci archive’s search engine, while Google returns hundr…
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…ems. I’m sure you’ve done the calculation: how many people can be expected buy the textbook at that price? Not many. Not to mention that we could pick up two copies of J. K. Rowling’s “complete works” for this royal sum. This is not dissemination of information. This is you failing the academic community. Because of your silliness, Souriau’s scholarship is not being widely shared in the way that the academic community needs. In this case, the auth…
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…lectronic copy of this book does is circulating on the inter-tubes. If you look around a bit, you’ll likely be able to find and download a copy for free. Just throwing that out there. See also my advice about reading on the cheap, and about learning GR online. This list was inspired by a recent post over at It’s Only a Theory — further suggestions are more than welcome. Happy reading! (*) Added Feb. 11 – Thanks commenters! Soul Physics is authored…
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…heorem or something like it? It is widely believe that the CPT may fail in generic extensions of quantum theory. In particular, the requirement of a unitary representation of the Poincaré group is pretty strong, and may not hold in the kind of general context of interest in quantum gravity. Just search for CPT-violation on the arxiv to see what I mean. But there is a sense in which something “like” a CPT theorem probably will hold in physics beyon…
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