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Sam
@Sam_kuyp
Quantum physicist 🇳🇱 Anglophile 🇬🇧 Fellow at @ConjectureInst · Founder of @OxfordPopper DMs not monitored.
- I get what the cartoon is criticising. Yet, a patent clerk invented one of the most important theories of modern physics, which is at odds with the picture of science the cartoon paints.I think about this cartoon a lot.
- In recent months I’ve learned that: -whale populations have rebounded -so has the Great Barrier Reef -so have bee populations
- Math textbooks almost never explain the problems that led to the theory. They just start with ‘definition, axiom, theorem,’ resulting in a sophisticated but completely unmotivated theory. Finding the motivation is left as an exercise for the reader.
- To celebrate @DavidDeutschOxf’s 70th birthday, colleagues and friends of David have contributed text and videos in which they share ideas on physics and philosophy related to David’s work: dd70th.weebly.com
- Putin is the one controlling the lever and needlessly murdering innocent people. Zelenskyy is urged to negotiate with lever-wielding Putin, while both are portrayed as equally culpable. It's absurd.
- C.S. Lewis’ excellent reply to St Paul’s well-know quote: When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- The question has been solved ever since Everett published his thesis in 1956: Collapse never happens. ‘We’ only see one possible outcome because other versions of us see the other possible outcomes. That Everett’s solution is still controversial is the only real mystery.To my mind, the biggest unsettled question in Quantum Mechanics is: How does the wavy probabilistic haze central to the mathematical formulation of the theory transform into the single definite reality of experience?
- Feynman’s book ‘The Meaning of It All’ is perhaps one of the best introductions to fallibilism I know. Here are some of my favourite quotes.
- The 'evolution is just a theory' argument assumes that science is a search for certainty and that theories are supposed to be turned into ‘justified true beliefs.’ But science is a search for good explanations, and explanations are always open to improvement.Incredible display of zealot's corner
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- Replying to @direstdiaristDutch satellite-technology was far ahead of its time and should really be the main story instead of the water.
- We are living in the aftermath of an extremely effective anti-nuclear campaign. We could all have been benefiting from reliable green-energy.The reason we’re burning coal today is that we wasted time and money on unreliable renewables rather than reliable nuclear power.
