Modern Physics is an origin story of extremes. Extreme speed. Extreme smallness. It was in these corners of reality that old notions found their limits and new ideas could rise to solve mysteries.
A hot cup of coffee and a cold cup of ice water, observed over hours, teach us about some of the things heat energy does, and in response to that, what temperature does. But what IS temperature? Figuring that out leads us down one of the many roads to the quantum universe.
My next stop in the seminar tour is my previous workplace, MIT. I left yesterday evening for Boston, arriving around sunset. Traffic […]
For many years, I have felt daunted by the quantum structure of nature. Don’t get me wrong – I studied it in […]
Crazy times, crazy times. I thought the summer would be busy, but it seems that I misjudged the autumn. There is a […]
Sometimes, scientific fields move fast. They move so fast, even three authors working with a really responsive and excellent publisher who has […]
