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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
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ode to scientists & futurists
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Given the opportunity, some small consistent portion of the population will happily pay for art.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that informatio
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
So while neuroscientists struggle to understand how there can be such a thing as a first-person reality, quantum physicists have to grapple with the mystery of how there can be anything but a first-person reality. In short, all roads lead back to the observer.
Amanda Gefter • The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
A mind-expanding tour of the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Robert Krulwich
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Einstein took literally the idea of the older German physicist Max Planck that light could be treated as if it came in little packets.