Fischer Black
By alethea |
I recently came across an article about my dad that I had never read before, from The Journal of Finance. I especially love the final sentence, about having the intellectual ...
Read More The Flaws in Our Models
By alethea |
1) The center of the local universe is not the sun. The center of the local universe is the observer. 2) Gravity is not a force. Einstein showed us this. ...
Read More Quantum Tunneling
By alethea |
In 2016, in Physical Review Letters, new research was published that was quietly shocking. "Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have squeezed water molecules between hexagonal beryl ...
Read More Biochemist Nick Lane
By alethea |
The biochemist Nick Lane raises a lot of interesting points in this interview with Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-origin-reframes-cancer-and-aging-20220808/ Here is my favorite passage: This ties into some of your ideas about ...
Read More Why Do the Planets [Appear to] Move?
By alethea |
The perception of motion is a funny thing. It requires a frame of reference. When you are on a train, the trees appear to move. But are they, really? Instead ...
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