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Why Hossenfelder is Wrong on Fundamental Constants
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December 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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It would be sufficient to really understand the electron
Einstein said “You know, it would be sufficient to really understand the electron”. At least that’s how Hans Dehmelt quoted him in 1989. As for the original source I’m not sure, I think it goes back t...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The Spin Crisis in 1925 - Do we Need to Start Over?
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November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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It would be sufficient to really understand the electron
Einstein said “it would be sufficient to really understand the electron”. At least that’s how Hans Dehmelt quoted him in 1989. As for the original source I’m not sure, I think it goes back to Stanford...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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It would be sufficient to really understand the electron
Einstein said “it would be sufficient to really understand the electron”. At least that’s how Hans Dehmelt quoted him in 1989. As for the original source I’m not sure, I think it goes back to Stanford...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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"Perhaps the past, if looked upon with care and hindsight, may teach us where we possibly took a wrong turn"
Scott Aaronson is a Computer Science professor at the University of Texas at Austin. See his Wikipedia entry, which says he’s the founding director of UT Austin's new Quantum Information Center. Aaron...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Zitter Institute
The world is a troubled place, and I don’t feel too optimistic about it right now. I won’t go into details because this is a physics blog, not a politics blog. But for me the cherry on top of all…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Planck's Quantum of Action: For Two Reasons A Profound Riddle
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October 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The TOE that Maxwell missed
If you’ve ever read James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, you might have noticed his Note on the Attraction of Gravitation. It’s at the end of part IV. Maxw...
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August 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The Zitter Institute
The world is a troubled place, and I don’t feel too optimistic about it right now. I won’t go into details because this is a physics blog, not a politics blog. But for me the cherry on top of all…
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August 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Toroidal models of the electron & proton
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August 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The Zitter Institute
The world is a troubled place, and I don’t feel too optimistic about it right now. I won’t go into details because this is a physics blog, not a politics blog. But for me the cherry on top of all…
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August 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The TOE that Maxwell missed
If you’ve ever read James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, you might have noticed his Note on the Attraction of Gravitation. It’s at the end of part IV. Maxw...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The TOE that Maxwell missed
If you’ve ever read James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, you might have noticed his Note on the Attraction of Gravitation. It’s at the end of part IV. Maxw...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The TOE that Maxwell missed
If you’ve ever read James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, you might have noticed his Note on the Attraction of Gravitation. It’s at the end of part IV. Maxw...
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August 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The TOE that Maxwell missed
If you’ve ever read James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, you might have noticed his Note on the Attraction of Gravitation. It’s at the end of part IV. Maxw...
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August 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The TOE that Maxwell missed
If you’ve ever read James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, you might have noticed his Note on the Attraction of Gravitation. It’s at the end of part IV. Maxw...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The nature of time
I think it’s important to understand the nature of time. That’s because I think it leads to other things. I also think you can gain an understanding of the nature of time by being empirical. For examp...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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"Perhaps the past, if looked upon with care and hindsight, may teach us where we possibly took a wrong turn"
There was really good article in the Atlantic recently. It was written by Ross Anderson, and it was called The Nobel Prize Winner who thinks we have the universe all wrong. It concerns cosmologist Ada...
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July 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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The nature of time
I think it’s important to understand the nature of time. That’s because I think it leads to other things. I also think you can gain an understanding of the nature of time by being empirical. For examp...
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July 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"Perhaps the past, if looked upon with care and hindsight, may teach us where we possibly took a wrong turn"
There was really good article in the Atlantic recently. It was written by Ross Anderson, and it was called The Nobel Prize Winner who thinks we have the universe all wrong. It concerns cosmologist Adam Riess¹, who shared the 2011…
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July 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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"Perhaps the past, if looked upon with care and hindsight, may teach us where we possibly took a wrong turn"
There was really good article in the Atlantic recently. It was written by Ross Anderson, and it was called The Nobel Prize Winner who thinks we have the universe all wrong. It concerns cosmologist Ada...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM