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Realism means too many things in philosophy and physics that it leads to many pointless debates. Better use, cite or define more...

Yet there's still Strings '26 coming up

After having read Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe I have been a bit enthusiastic, but unfortunately ...

Almost all measuring devices do not count photons. For example, you mention reading a thermometer, which requires light to see its...

There is a very big difference between using photons and counting photons.

How? What wave? Have you ever seen how we quantize the electromagnetic field to get photons? It is the same idea, photons might be real...

Even after his famed 1905 papers Einstein had trouble getting an academic job. In spite of being sponsored by famous Max Planck --...

You are right it is a short hand to avoid "excitation of mode ##\omega,\mathbf k##". But in second quantization treatment, this is...

On turbulence: –Horace Lamb (1932 address British Association for the Advancement of Science, I could not find it) –Richard Feynman...

Einstein got (Nobel) help from his dad? Albert Einstein was unable to get an assistant position while he was studying in Zurich. He...

If anybody here knows: How readable is Galois’ original work? I was wondering how much could he do without the work of Noether and Van...

I liked this half more than most of the stories at the end of Foundation 1. Sure but a reason was given. In the TV series there is no...

the difference between someone who understands Galois theory and the rest of us is illustrated by this simple question: when asked why...

Oh boy I finally got to watch season 2. What a fabulous... mess. I can say that: I liked most of the fabricated new plots related to...

The interpretation would be the conceptualization of a quantum system as a system with a definite classical configuration, evolving...