Jim Baggott
British science writer; author of more than ten books on physics, philosophy and the history of science, including Atomic, The Quantum Story and Quantum Drama (with John Heilbron).
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Their wordsThose concerned might first want to study the programme of ‘Russification’ of the Soviet satellite states initiated by Joseph Stalin which, oddly, the BBC fails to mention in this report.
- 16 months earlier
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Their wordsOn the other hand, the theory is deeply unsatisfactory. There are nagging doubts about cosmic inflation. And we have no real idea what dark matter or dark energy are, which means that we cannot properly explain about 95% of the universe.
- 10 days earlier
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Teaching children to tell truth from falsehood also requires teaching some philosophy of truth.
Their wordsif you’re going to teach kids how to distinguish truth from falsity, you need also to teach something of the philosophy of truth.
- 9 days earlier
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Their words‘Promising’ is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting here. The article is quite well balanced, but in our hyper-distracted social media age, I fear few will take the trouble to get beyond the headline.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Refusing to discipline Elon Musk does more damage to science than disciplining him would.
Their wordsTaking disciplinary action againt Musk would be ‘damaging to the society and to science itself’. Utterly wrong. More damage is being done by refusing to acknowledge the harm this idiot is causing.
- 17 months earlier
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The Copenhagen interpretation is rightly accused of dogmatism, but often for the wrong reasons.
Their wordsThe Copenhagen interpretation is accused (rightly) of dogmatism, but often for the wrong reasons.
↗The Copenhagen Confusionjimbaggott.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn the Copenhagen interpretation, all measurements are classical and the notion of ‘quantum measurement’ doesn’t arise. There is no such thing as the ‘measurement problem’ in the Copenhagen interpretation.
↗The Copenhagen Confusionjimbaggott.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut we should not overlook the simple fact that all the experimental studies of the last 50 years have failed to establish the superiority of any realist interpretation or extension of quantum mechanics. The matter of interpretation remains undecided.
↗The Copenhagen Confusionjimbaggott.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece