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Homework Takeaway: There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza…
I finished reading The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, a week or so ago, and meant to post about that with some summary thoughts. Instead, I reached the end the week of the discovery of the Higgs-Boson, ...
Homework Takeaway #5: We’re Pretty Sure There Was A Big Bang
After several months – was it really back in January that I posted my most recent update in this series? – I picked up “The Elegant Universe” again and kept reading. On page 349 (in my ...
I say “re,” you say “search”
Have set up a paper.li for Climate Change, so if you want to see what Twitter is saying about that in advance of Hot Mess‘s March release, click here. Read a fascinating paper last night ...
Homework Takeaway #4: Uncertainties in Time, Space and Relationships
I’m still chipping away at Elegant Universe, and have just finished watching Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen – the version starring Daniel Craig as Werner Heisenberg and Stephen Rea as Neils Bohr. So now there are a ...
Homework Takeaway #3: Calabi-Yau Dimensions: You Are Where You Are Cuz You’re There
I’m entering the second half of Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe, and last night read a beautiful, resonant section about Calabi-Yau dimensions. (That page is in French, though Google translate seems to be handling it ...
Homework Takeaway #2: Weak Force Expansion & Limited Elasticity
Another good point brought up in Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe.” After overturning Newtonian physics, Einstein ran into a situation that suggested the universe might be expanding. This was, according to Greene, too much for ...
Homework Takeaway (#1): Light Ain’t Old
I’m reading Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe” as homework for a creative project I’ve got cooking with a co-writer. I decided to start organizing some of the thoughts I’m having as I read this book. ...
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