But that does not mean he is not also right in his own way. As Dr. Lehrl had explained it, entropy was a measure of a certain type of information that there was no point in knowing. Lehrl’s axiom was that the definitive test of … Continue readingHe is wrong, of course.
And I am a bit embarrassed. There is a 3-sigma bump at Fermilab that may be the Higgs!
Excerpted from Roger Rosenblatt’s upcoming book, Unless it Moves the Human Heart: For your writing to be great—I mean great, not clever, or even brilliant, or most misleading of all, beautiful—it must be useful to the world. And for that to happen you must form … Continue readingThis is something I believe.
I am quite the sucker for a good rant about modern poets.
First Physics Day is coming very soon.
They neglected to mention all the coffee, reading, and stress.
Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?
This is exciting. The LHC’s first proton-proton collisions happened yesterday evening between two counter-circling packets of some 2 billion particles each. Though the beam energy was much lower than that optimal for searching for the Higgs or other exotica, real physics will be beginning soon. … Continue readingFirst Collision
From The Education of Henry Adams, proof of the longevity of ideas or, rather, their lengthy irresolution: “He could not deny that the law of the new multiverse explained much that had been most obscure…but the staggering problem was the outlook ahead into the despotism … Continue readingThe Multiverse, in 1903
As an aesthetics-minded former physicist I quite enjoy artists who are able to convey the beauty and mystery of quantum mechanics through images. I especially admire former physicists who are able to make such art, who help us to visualize the physical world we do … Continue readingQuantum Sculpture