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Recollections of Some Notable Texts
Jeremy Bernstein
[short_description] A recent collection of Freeman Dyson’s lectures, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, is reviewed by Jeremy Bernstein, alongside other published lectures by Julian Schwinger and Steven Weinberg.
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Higgs on the Moon
Adam Falkowski
[short_description] A hundred precision experiments or a one hundred-km collider? Adam Falkowski reviews recent results from the Large Hadron Collider and what they mean for the future of experimental particle physics.
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Natural Physics
Aurélien Barrau
[short_description] Recent results from the Large Hadron Collider showed no sign of any new physics and did not provide confirmation for supersymmetry. According to Aurélien Barrau, a fundamental rethink is in order.
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The Dark Side
Daniel Kleitman
[short_description] The frustrations of being an astrobiologist. Mathematician Daniel Kleitman responds to Caleb Scharf’s Nautilus article “Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?”
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The Pope
Jeremy Bernstein
[short_description] The human (and elemental) interactions that led to developing the atomic bomb. Jeremy Bernstein reviews The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Segrè and Hoerlin.
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Lost at Sea
Josh Gelernter
[short_description] In 1938, the brilliant young theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana dropped off the face of the earth. Josh Gelernter explores his foundational work and mysterious disappearance.
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The Beginning of the Universe
Alexander Vilenkin
[short_description] The BGV theorem shows the universe must have had a beginning. Alexander Vilenkin describes the theory of quantum creation, and how the universe could have a beginning and also be uncaused.
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Physical Theories and Computer Simulations in Climate Science
William Kininmonth
[short_description] There is no evidence that climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide concentration is as great as computer models have projected, says William Kininmonth. The predictions depend on flawed computer models.
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On Bohmian Mechanics
[short_description] A remarkable email exchange between physicist Sheldon Goldstein, a persuasive exponent of the views of David Bohm, and Steven Weinberg, one of the founders of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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