…Bas: QM An Empiricist View Also, some classic unpublished texts: David Malament, Notes on Geometry & Spacetime Rob Clifton, Introductory Notes on QM Also, quickly becoming classics: Brown, Harvey: Physical Relativity Healey, Richard: Gauging What’s Real Lange, Marc: Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics Monographs contained in the Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, Earman & Butterfield (eds) One important book on the list, John Earman’s (1986)…
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…included: Richard Dawid on `String Theory and the Question of Theory Assessment’; Nick Hugget, `(Again) A Philosopher Looks at String Theory’; and Lee Smolin‘s `Remarks on the Reality of Time in Physics and Cosmology.’ 1. ASSESSING STRING THEORY We kicked the morning off with a few pots of coffee and a discussion with Richard about how we ought to assess String Theory. Richard has a background in theoretical physics, and has spent his fair share o…
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…moves, and we’re about to find out which one: we’ve got a determined programmer with a huge super-computer on the case. Rapid Recent Progress. In 2006, Tom Rokicki showed that there are cube configurations requiring at least 20 moves to solve; this gave us a lower bound. Then last year, Kunkle and Cooperman proved (pdf) that any cube configuration can be solved in 26 moves; this gave us an upper bound. But in recent months, rapid progress has been…
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…op: Create a new Shell geeklet in the Geektool preference pane Enter the command: cat PathToYourList/YourList.txt To synchronize multiple computers, make sure the file is in a Dropbox folder. Quicksilver. This is why I own a mac. It’s free from Blacktree.com. If you’re new to it, try this beginner’s guide. To set up the ‘Append’ and ‘Completed’ functions seen in the screencast: On the Quicksilver > Plugins page, add the ‘Text Manipulation Actions’…
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…sertion in MS Word. Reduce the stress this year. Here’s an easy way to use mathematical symbols without having to deal with LaTeX. Get Started Improving Your Philsci Archive Experience. Broaden your horizons in the new year with everyone’s favorite philosophy of science database. Here are some tricks to ease the experience. Get Started Reading Books and Articles on the Cheap. Trying to save money this year? Stop paying so much to read! Get Started…
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