The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a […]
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My little pandemic-lockdown contribution to the world was a series of videos called The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. The
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The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing
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Randomness and probability are central to modern physics. In statistical mechanics this is because we don’t know everything about the
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Modern particle physics is a victim of its own success. We have extremely good theories — so good that it’s
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As each December comes to a close, we wrap up another year of podcasts with the Mindscape Holiday Message. Nothing
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When it comes to thinking about quantum mechanics, there are levels. One level is shut-up-and-calculate: find a wave function, square
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There is so much we don’t know about our universe. But our curiosity about the unknown shouldn’t blind us to
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Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some
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Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that;
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