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Mood Music

"Describing this conceptual breakthrough, which he backed mathematically, thus rocking modern physics, Arkani-Hamed says: 'At the time, I was just in the mood for thinking about something different.'…

Out of Sequence

A meditation yesterday by physics writer Peter Woit — Last week on Jeopardy (see here), no one got this question: Nima Arkani-Hamed is using this number dimension, the next…

Earlier…

Templeton reportedly died on Saturday, May 16, 2015.

Real Life

From Amazon.com — From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Tuesday afternoon — A 46-year-old Jesuit priest who was a Marquette University assistant professor of theology collapsed on campus Tuesday morning and died,…

The Lindbergh Manifesto

"Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing." — Photographer Peter Lindbergh at his website From a biography of Lindbergh — "… it took Lindbergh…

Ex Nihilo

Yesterday morning's quote from The Politics of Experience : "Creation ex nihilo  has been pronounced impossible even for God. But we are concerned with miracles." Related material: Curtis + Turyn in…

Song for a Blue Guitar

From a 2012 piece on author Oliver Sacks: "… he successfully set out to envision a splash of true indigo, the colour he had been fascinated by since…

Metaphysics for Sunday

From Chapter 1 of R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience — "An activity has to be understood in terms of the experience from which it emerges. These arabesques that…

Moon Shadow

"I'm being followed by a moon shadow…."  — Song lyric

Songs of Experience

Is experience the best teacher? At Thursday's opening night of U2's "Innocence and Experience" tour, The Edge falls off the stage —   … Or is the best teacher Buddy Rich? Bus…