…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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…ut now let’s suppose that you’re a hardcore empiricist and you still don’t buy it. If that’s the case, then you don’t have to worry about mini-black-holes at CERN in the first place, as there is absolutely no empirical reason to believe they will appear. Black holes appear when a sufficiently large mass-energy to be crammed into a sufficiently small radius, which in our example is called the Schwarzschild radius (R_s) of that mass. This is not exp…
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…iography.bib}. Now, whenever you type “cite” followed by the Tab key, you’ll get a drop-down menu displaying all the references in you .bib-file. Related Posts: Elegant Desktop ToDo List with Geektool and Quicksilver Get started reading books and articles on the cheap Get started using automatic symbol insertion in MS Word Get started improving your philosophical apparel Get started reading recent classics in the philosophy of physics Soul Physi…
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…tute has done us the extraordinary service of putting the whole manuscript online. I first spent a few days assembling my own interpretation of this manuscript page. Then I took a look at how other people interpreted it. Surprisingly, two features of the manuscript that I thought were significant seem to have been completely ignored by scholars. And no wonder — it turns out that the only available English reproductions of the document omit a signf…
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