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Astronomy

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But what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are able to explain. They know down to many decimal places where those maps are useful guides to reality, and where they aren’t. And when they hit uncharted territory, like quantum mechanics, they explore it carefully i

Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)

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Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This

Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

In this book I argue that all progress, both theoretical and practical, has resulted from a single human activity: the quest for what I call good explanations. Though this quest is uniquely human, its effectiveness is also a fundamental fact about reality at the most impersonal, cosmic level – namely that it conforms to universal laws of nature tha... See more

David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World

It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope

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Yet in reality, the solar system is heliocentric – centred on the sun, not the Earth – and the Earth is not at rest but in complex motion.

David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

There was a harmonious reality underlying the laws of the universe, Einstein felt, and the goal of science was to discover it.