Quotes
David Quammen on Books
Physicists Hunt For The Big Bang’s Triangles | Quanta Magazine
“The notion that counting more shapes in the sky will reveal more details of the Big Bang is implied in a central principle of quantum physics known as “unitarity.” Unitarity dictates that the probabilities of all possible quantum states of the universe must add up to one, now and forever; thus, information, which is stored in quantum states, can never be lost — only scrambled. This means that all information about the birth of the cosmos remains encoded in its present state, and the more precisely cosmologists know the latter, the more they can learn about the former.”
Two Types of Hipsters
How to Steal a Million
Then, just a bit later in the film:
On Being a Secretary
Sir Francis Bacon smacks down Republican party front-runners
s I watch the unfolding of the 2016 presidential election, I find myself wondering more and more where I can register to vote for the “scientific party?”
The electorate seems to want to focus primarily (only?) on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which our country was founded. Though I have no qualm with these principles, they seem to miss the firmer and primary base upon which the country was built at the dawn of the Age of Reason.
Can computers help us read the mind of nature? by Paul Davies | The Guardian
I’m a sucker for references to math and pastry
Game Theory’s Tit-for-Tat is Just a Mathematically Complete Version of Religion’s Golden Rule
Don’t get the impression that I actually read more than a few pages
An Asterisk Does Not Denote a Hard Problem†
Nothing Would be More Devastating than Reduced Access to a Technical Library
Algebra is Like Pastry: Wonderful!