Nigel Goldenfeld
@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UCSD. Interested in everything.
Theoretical physicist researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics. Bad at staying in my lane.
https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
Theoretical physicist researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics. Bad at staying in my lane.
https://guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
Will, that's pitch perfect! Have you thought about doing the Snoop Dogg version?
Reminds me of one of my favourite biology books: A Field Guide To Bacteria. A good book to enjoy with one's kids, I found.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
Reminds me of one of my favourite biology books: A Field Guide To Bacteria. A good book to enjoy with one's kids, I found.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
A Field Guide to Bacteria by Betsey Dexter. Dyer | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Although most people are aware that bacteria are all around us, few would guess that they produce such distinctive and accessible signs. Whether you're walking on the beach, visiting a zoo or aquarium...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Will, that's pitch perfect! Have you thought about doing the Snoop Dogg version?
Reminds me of one of my favourite biology books: A Field Guide To Bacteria. A good book to enjoy with one's kids, I found.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
Reminds me of one of my favourite biology books: A Field Guide To Bacteria. A good book to enjoy with one's kids, I found.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
'Trump’s March executive order, [demanding] strict voter identification procedures & new voting equipment standards, is just “a piece of paper with a scrawly signature on it”.'
A federal judge said the president was improperly asserting powers the constitution assigned to Congress and the states.
A federal judge said the president was improperly asserting powers the constitution assigned to Congress and the states.
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
'Trump’s March executive order, [demanding] strict voter identification procedures & new voting equipment standards, is just “a piece of paper with a scrawly signature on it”.'
A federal judge said the president was improperly asserting powers the constitution assigned to Congress and the states.
A federal judge said the president was improperly asserting powers the constitution assigned to Congress and the states.
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Meanwhile Trump is busy extorting and nationalizing our most lucrative private companies.
Is that what "of the people ..." actually means?
qz.com/trump-govern...
Is that what "of the people ..." actually means?
qz.com/trump-govern...
Two companies and one sector Team Trump could invest in next
With a government portfolio in his pocket and more likely on the way from the quantum sector, Wall Street is wondering where Trump will look next
qz.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Meanwhile Trump is busy extorting and nationalizing our most lucrative private companies.
Is that what "of the people ..." actually means?
qz.com/trump-govern...
Is that what "of the people ..." actually means?
qz.com/trump-govern...
🧪⚛️Max Born won the Nobel Prize in Physics for giving the correct interpretation of the wave function in a footnote to his paper in 1926. The rest of the paper incorrectly states that the wave function amplitude gives the probability. The mind boggles about what Nature's bot would say about that.
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🧪⚛️Max Born won the Nobel Prize in Physics for giving the correct interpretation of the wave function in a footnote to his paper in 1926. The rest of the paper incorrectly states that the wave function amplitude gives the probability. The mind boggles about what Nature's bot would say about that.
Exactly. Carl was a person with zero pretensions.
And yes, he had originally been trained as a physicist.
🧪⚛️
If you're interested in some more personal recollections:
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
And yes, he had originally been trained as a physicist.
🧪⚛️
If you're interested in some more personal recollections:
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
guava.physics.ucsd.edu
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Exactly. Carl was a person with zero pretensions.
And yes, he had originally been trained as a physicist.
🧪⚛️
If you're interested in some more personal recollections:
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
And yes, he had originally been trained as a physicist.
🧪⚛️
If you're interested in some more personal recollections:
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...