…ile. Add the Completed.scpt script to the folder YourUsername/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions. Create this folder if it doesn’t exist yet. And that’s it! As always, be sure to leave your thoughts, ideas or improvements in the comments below. Related Posts: Get started handling academic citations like a pro Get started reading books and articles on the cheap Get started reading recent classics in the philosophy of physics Soul Physi…
Read more…ering around D.C. with my Hawking & Ellis text. This was just fine, as I needed to straighten a few things about the uniqueness of geodesics for one of my latest projects (which I promise to write about soon). And anyway, that evening, Jeff Bub very kindly hosted a reception for everyone at his house. So for me the conference began — as all good conferences should — with a glass of wine and plenty of friendly faces. SATURDAY The next morning, I pu…
Read more…e basis for special relativity theory. (Honesty note: some more mild-mannered principles are also required for this derivation, such as the homogeneity and isotropy of space.) Of course, it is possible to derive the Lorentz transformations without the light postulate (Torretti 1983, ch. 3). And famously, historian Gerald Holton revealed in an interview that Einstein was not influenced by this experiment when developing the theory of special relati…
Read more…especially the quintic). Since then, applications of group theory have turned up in unexpected places. Group theory became inseparable from the study of both quantum theory and relativity in the mid-20th century, leading Wigner to famously call mathematics in general “unreasonably effective.” (I recommend Octavio Bueno’s very informative analysis of this history.) In the last two decades, applications of group theory have surfaced in biology and i…
Read more…ly reducing the amount of mass-energy in our (4-dimensional brane) world needed to create a black hole — by screwing with that extra dimension, you can still get the necessary curvature conditions. The five-dimensional black hole is then expected to accrete mass until a 4-dimensional black hole is created in our world. Now, 4-dimensional mini black holes quickly evaporate because of Hawking radiation. So if you believe the RS brane world model, th…
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