Ghulf Genes

Back around about 1966 I stumbled on Thomas Kuhn’s famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , thus shortly after it appeared (C...

Came news the other day I heard on the radio out shopping that somebody had discovered a molecule-like thing with four quarks—whereas in ph...

Back in early 2011 ( link ) I wrote as follows in a post: “Long ago and far away it genuinely pleased me to encounter the word enantiodromi...

The boys—and surely also ladies— Who run the tunnels hot as Hades In Switzerland, a place called CERN, Where Hadron rules and people learn J...

1975 The Tao of Physics 1979 The Dance of the Wu Li Masters 1984 The Looking Glass Universe 1984 In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat 1...

An addendum to the last post. Having to do some basement cleaning today, a thought occurred. If Maxwell, Lorentz, Einstein, and countless ot...

The physicist David Bohm used to say that physicist were not physical enough. They relied too much on mathematical equations and had no, as ...

Creation myths probably have this in common. First , they sound reasonable within their own cultures because children learn them and get use...

In something like 500 years we’ve replaced a theological with a mathe­matical scholasticism. The old one could be understood by a reasonably...