I’m short on time today and working on a guest blog which I hope to be able to provide a link to shortly. But I did begin exploring a website that has short video interviews with some of my favorite thinkers. I found among a list of participants on the website Closer To Truth, Gregory […]
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I read another New Scientist article today. The article was written by Brian Greene. While it didn’t give me a lot of new information, it made an interesting point about what it means (and when is it particularly effective) to take our mathematics seriously. He talked about Einstein’s insight regarding the speed of light. It […] Sean Carroll, Theoretical Physicist at the California Institute of Technology has recently published a new book. Entitled The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Higgs Boson Leads us to the Edge of a New World it discusses the importance of the Higgs boson as well as the significance of the extraordinary work […] In general, I tend to resist talking about the thing that everyone is talking about, but I find reason to make an exception today. I do want to say something about yesterday’s announcement from physicists at the LHC that they saw the Higgs particle. Frank Wilczek describes the significance of this observation (particularly nicely) in […] Not long ago I wrote about the work of Bob Coecke, an Oxford University physicist, who is pioneering an application of category theory to quantum mechanics. In that post I referred to the work he is also doing with language, using the same kind of graphic structures. I drew attention to the fact that category […] The extent to which an idea in mathematics creates an idea in science is largely underappreciated. It is common to think of mathematics as the tool that one needs to describe the reality explored by physics, as if the mathematics is secondary, or a purely linguistic consideration. But it should be clear that this is […] Bob Coecke has received a grant of over $111,000 from the Foundational Questions Institute to continue his work on a graphical language to describe quantum mechanical processes. The work is based on category theory, a branch of mathematics that focuses less on the mathematical objects themselves, and more on the maps that transform them. The […] If one is paying attention, questions about the relationship between mathematics and reality just get more interesting. Mathematician Alain Connes is certainly the modern representation of the Platonic view that mathematical reality is a discoverable, fully existent reality. But there is also the view from MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark that our physical world is not […] |
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