Space Between Philosophy and Physics
The despicable state of K-12 mathematics in the US has been summarized in one charming, witty, furious article by Paul Lockhart. That’s Lockhart the mathematician-turned-gradeschool-teacher, not Lockhart the astronaut. He…
Roger Penrose came to Pittsburgh on Friday, presenting his new picture of cosmology. It was my first time seeing a Penrose presentation, and I was delighted to find it filled…
The unfolding of time is typically described as a sequence of spatial regions: one region of space gets realized, and then another, and then another. For example: consider a region…
Time along the vertical axis; space along the horizontal…. Voila! And now, how to travel to the past…. Soul Physics is authored by Bryan W. Roberts. Thanks for subscribing. Want…
There is a lot of literature about how it is that important successes in science apparently stemmed from false belief. Belief in the existence of caloric is a common example:…