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Month: February 2015

The Many Worlds Interpretation

Sober reflection may be required after my paean of praise for physicists in the post In Our Time, The Photon. Too many worlds is a thought-provoking Aeon article by Philip Ball. Nobody knows what happens inside quantum experiments. So why are some so keen to believe in parallel universes? Apparently there is a strongly held… Continue reading The Many Worlds Interpretation

Published 18th February 2015
Categorised as About science, Diary

In Our Time, The Photon

What an informative and inspiring edition of BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, The Photon on 12 February. Steve Jones sometimes refers to biologists as having “physics envy”. I suffer from this. Steve suggests it is because biologists know that physicists are cleverer than they are. Hard to know. However, as a group, physicists… Continue reading In Our Time, The Photon

Published 13th February 2015
Categorised as About language, About science, About universities, Diary

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