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It's a reference to The Forbibben Planet (1956). The Krell civilization built a machine that granted their every wish. But, when they...

They'll not feel so bad, seeing it happening to us as well!

And the Krell are rolling over in their graves.

The monster from the id has been loosed.

As one who has never really used social media and thus been a bit baffled at the public discussion of the toxicity and other issues they...

This is not, strictly speaking, a discussion of interpretations per se. We often see discussions based on QM as it was understood...

Indeed. We now know the real issue is how the classical world of everyday experience emerges. Once the chain in the thought...

Which is also missed by most of popularisations, and unfortunately a lot of physicists.

The point of the thought experiment was to show that something was wrong with the then current (mid 1920s) understanding of QM - the...

I think you've missed the point of the thought experiment.

Wow.... I think this took me a couple of reads (okay... the ring bit... much more than a couple) over to figure out what was going on...

Things become more difficult for the ##p=3## case. The basic idea is to translate the additive problem $$ a^p+b^p=c^p $$ into a...

But the example does illustrate how close you can get and still its not close enough to disprove the theorem. A recollection by G.H...

What was Fermat's level of mathematical knowledge time? Was it comparable to what Andrew Wiles knew? I’ve read that Fermat would write...

Naively, instantaneous action at a distance ensures conservation. Newton's theory of gravity being a prime example. In particular...