The Trouble with Physics?
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Contrarians have always been important to science. Sometimes, like Continenetal Drift Guy, their ideas languish for years. But now we measure the movement of tectonic plates with laser ranging from the moon. Einstein was able to leap tall paradigms with a single bound. Then he tripped on quantum hurdle. But sometimes the contrarians just don’t pan out. Pons and Fleishman thought they had discovered cold fusion. It would have been wonderful. We could have avoided what Cockburn and Ridgeway called, “The Last Play”. Gene Malove got the job of a lifetime as CTO of KMS Fusion and nothing has been heard of it since. Looks like The Establishment was right.
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Lee Smolin is visiting Richard Freeman’s
Economics 2888hf : Economics of Science and Engineering Workshop
to discuss his book, with the declarative title, “The Trouble with Physics”.
3:30 PM
53 Church St.
Lower Level Classroom.
A first for Harvard: My earlier post had the address wrong!*
Security will admit Havard ID holders on their own recognisance. Non Havard people need to come early so Jack Trumpbour can let you in.
*Havard makes mistakes all the time. The admitting it part seems to be hard 🙂
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