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
Month: February 2015
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