Kuhn noted that as paradigms reach their breaking point, there is a divergence of opinions between scientists about what the important evidence is, or what even counts as evidence. This has come to…
I recently finished reading Peter Woit's book Not Even Wrong , one of the two books that have received great attention in recent months for ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the world.
Computer music, photography, some poetry and fiction, and something more or less like theology or...
HOBOKEN, APRIL 15, 2025. I don’t march for science . That’s like waving a flag and yelling, “Yay U.S.A.!” Science is a big, powerful institution, and it doesn’t need cheerleaders any more than the U.S.A. does. So I’ve always thought. But now that the U.S.A. is attacking science, I’m reconsiderin
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Some links from the last month
In his very useful blog about theoretical physics, Peter Woit has started to pay attention to artificial intelligence and its uses by mathematicians and physicists. In this post, Woit references...