"Can we craft a theory in which space and time aren’t assumed to exist?"
July 02, 2020
More of the ongoing weirdness of modern physics: "In some versions of quantum gravity, time itself condenses into existence."
Science
"A collection of free books from Springer"
June 30, 2020
"To help support everyone during Covid-19, Springer has released a ton of free textbooks."
Obviously not the most recent books, but may well be worth a minute or two to look. I downloaded a couple.
"10 Myths About The Quantum Universe"
June 18, 2020
"But along with this new, counterintuitive picture of reality, many myths and misconceptions have arisen. Here's the true science behind 10 of them."
"Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis Is a third-act twist to nuclear energy at hand?"
June 18, 2020
Apparently, even some of Big Al's unpublished work was amazing.
"Physicists still lost in math"
June 11, 2020
A nice concise statement from Dr. Hossenfelder of what she thinks has gone wrong in the last several decades of theoretical physics and how physicists might fix the problem.
"NASA scientists detect evidence of parallel universe where time runs backward"
May 28, 2020
Still more extreme weirdness from modern physics.
"The Physics Travel Guide"
May 19, 2020
"The Physics Travel Guide is an expository wiki which explains concepts in three levels of difficulty. We call these levels: intuitive, concrete and abstract."
"The Raven Paradox"
May 14, 2020
Sabine Hossenfelder presents an interesting problem in inference that I hadn't heard before.
"The Scientists Who Won't Give Up on the Warp Drive"
May 14, 2020
Yeah, it seems like the odds are really lousy. But a few other inventors have faced very long odds, too.
"The Most Important Image Ever Taken By NASA's Hubble Space Telescope"
May 12, 2020
The Hubble Deep Field. It's quite simply astonishing--there's no other word for it.