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Sean Carroll et al. posted a preprint with the above title. Sean also has a discussion of it in his blog.  While I am a physicist by train

Imagine someone finding out that "Physics professors fail on basic physics problems". This, of course, would never happen. To become a physi

(Epistemic status: often discussed in bits in pieces, haven't seen it summarized in one place anywhere.) Do you feel that your computer so

"This book is awful" => "I dislike this book" => "I dislike this book because it is shallow and is full of run-on sentences." => I dislike t

Scott Adams, the author of the Dilbert comic and several books, my favorite being How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, named

Hopefully at least one or two would show a virtue of non-straw rationality. Episode list

Actually, the title is a sensationalist lie designed to attract attention. I have no proof. Obviously. I'm not a mathematician. But if I did

Some of the comments on the link by James_Miller exactly six months ago provided very specific estimates of how the events might turn out:

Yet another exceptionally interesting blog post by Scott Aaronson, describing his talk at the Quantum Foundations of a Classical Universe wo

A blog post in Scientific American, well worth reading. Rovelli is a researcher in Loop Quantum Gravity. Some quotes: Horgan: Do multive