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This is the transcript of a talk by physicist David Kaplan. The talk is on YouTube. I numbered each sentence for easy reference. Table of ...

What is the meaning of this sentence? Science is the magic that actually works. *** I guess physicists do not realize that there is a...

The death of Newton's absurd assumption of inertial motion on a straight line: To formulate [the principle of inertial motion] requir...

Assuming that someone designed the living creatures and calling that someone “god”, we ask if he is a topologist? We don't mean to imp...

Edwin Hubble observed the motions of 24 galaxies. You extrapolated from the motions of 24 galaxies to the universe as a whole. Do you thin...

I’m reading Mapping the Heavens by Priyamvada Natarajan. It’s a wonderful book full of useful information but unfortunately its main premi...

I will be writing a series of short comments about this article by Jim Baggott, Physics has demoted mass: modern physics has taught us that ...