Value in Formal Theory Land | 4 gravitons
What makes a physics theory valuable? You may think that a theory’s job is to describe reality, to be true. If that’s the goal, we have a whole toolbox of ways to assess its value. We c…| 4 gravitons
I don’t usually do obituaries here, but sometimes I have something worth saying. Chen Ning Yang, a towering figure in particle physics, died last week. I never met him. By the time I started my PhD at Stony Brook, Yang was long-retired, and hadn’t visited the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics in quite some time. […]| 4 gravitons
MindSpark’25, the flagship technical festival of COEP Technological University, prepares to launch its highly anticipated 19th edition from 3rd October. From 2007, MindSpark has cemented its position as one of India’s biggest technical festivals, a coveted launchpad for emerging talents to showcase their skills and pioneer the innovative ideas that will shape our future. This […] The post MindSpark’25: Bridging Innovation and Imagination with The Quantum Nexus appeared first on...| Youth Incorporated Magazine
Occasionally, people try to give “even-handed” accounts of crackpot physics, like people who claim to have invented anti-gravity devices. These accounts don’t go so far as to say that the crackpots are right, and will freely point out plausible doubts about the experiments. But at the end of the day, they’ll conclude that we still […]| 4 gravitons
Black holes have been in the news a couple times recently. On one end, there was the observation of an extremely large black hole in the early universe, when no black holes of the kind were expected to exist. My understanding is this is very much a “big if true” kind of claim, something that […]| 4 gravitons
What makes a physics theory valuable? You may think that a theory’s job is to describe reality, to be true. If that’s the goal, we have a whole toolbox of ways to assess its value. We c…| 4 gravitons
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For over a decade, I studied scattering amplitudes, the formulas particle physicists use to find the probability that particles collide, or scatter, in different ways. I went to Amplitudes, the fie…| 4 gravitons
