Adam Becker @freelanceastro@octodon.social
Freelance astrophysicist. Writing a book about why quantum physics is hard. #scicomm, #openscience. http://freelanceastro.com
Now reading replies to DeWitt's article. http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3022676
#quantum #booklife #physics
"Schizophrenia with a vengeance." DeWitt on his first reaction to #ManyWorlds. #quantum #booklife #physics https://octodon.social/media/MvlsvKF4931TVNmlmrk
#mastocats am I doing this right? https://octodon.social/media/0iSMrVRe3dnwy_S_iO8 https://octodon.social/media/96bt2PLL2NEyJD6Fm2U https://octodon.social/media/7_NWQiTjG0nnX0ADHdA
(All from DeWitt's paper.) #booklife #quantum
americans complaining about toots being in french: stop
More historical context for DeWitt's paper: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200905/physicshistory.cfm
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/everett13_reminder.html
#quantum #booklife
Reading Bryce DeWitt on #ManyWorlds in Physics Today, 1970. 1st popular article on the theory. #quantum #booklife http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3022331
My last toot notwithstanding, this place is only going to survive if we have enough toots about things *other* than Mastodon. Making this up: maybe we should be shooting for a ratio of 10:1 or better for non-Mastodon/Mastodon toots?
If this is the Federation, then maybe we should be calling birdsite "the Dominion." #ds9 #startrek #NerdularNerdence
Nice article on Bohm's pilot-wave #quantum theory from Anil Ananthaswamy in New Scientist (paywalled, unfortunately): https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431200-200-realitys-comeback-the-hidden-network-that-controls-what-we-see/
#Exoplanets, #astrophysics, #relativity, and more: here's the full list of animated science videos I did with BBC Earth. (Sadly, due to internal reorg at the BBC, it's unlikely we'll be doing more.)
http://freelanceastrophysicist.com/2017/04/bbc-animations/
https://octodon.social/media/BGey_9a4H9pEYFiwPRQ
A new effort to make scientific citation data more available: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/now-free-citation-data-14-million-papers-and-more-might-come
Excellent #dataviz on a crucial subject. Systemic racism kills. http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/florida-police-shootings/if-youre-black/
The real value add of Mastodon is giving everyone an excuse to finally put something on all the weird domains they've been squatting
What's everything made of? The Standard Model of particle physics in all its bewildering complexity, in my latest video with BBC Earth. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170404-the-physics-that-tells-us-what-the-universe-is-made-of https://octodon.social/media/AwCakWOFQSZrEz4u9Kg
Ten chapters written, two to go! #booklife :book:
