Quantum Mechanics
Ways of Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: A Quick Look
Copenhagen, Parallel Worlds and Infinite trajectories: Time to dive into the weird.
Physics
Physics
Physics Puzzles: A Pebble Thrown in the Air
Will It Take Longer to Go Up or Down?
Mathematics
The Martians of Budapest
The Martians of Budapest”, sometimes referred to as simply “The Martians” is a colloquial term used to describe a group of prominent Hungarian physicists and mathematicians who emigrated to the United States following the Great Purge of 1933.
Time
Time Is An Illusion Born Out Of Our Ignorance
Deconstructing time using Lorentz transformations, special relativity, and entropy
Physics
A Brief Overview of Candidate Theories Of Everything
Microscopic strings, looped space, and eight dimensional spheres
Quantum Mechanics
How Quantum Mechanics Alters Reality
The double-slit experiment
Relativity
Can Transatlantic Flight Paths explain General Relativity?
The Geometry of Great Circle Routes and the Curvature of Spacetime
Feynman
Richard Feynman’s First Lecture (1940)
“I went through fire on my first.” While still a graduate student at Princeton University in 1940, Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) gave his first lecture in a seminar on electrodynamics, the topic that would eventually earn him the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics. In front of a prestigious audience
Classical Mechanics
Applications in Physics and Elastic Collisions
Bouncing balls to space
Group Theory
Noether’s Theorem: How Symmetry Shapes Physics
Conservation laws form the basis of theoretical physics. In 1915, Emmy Noether found their origin in the symmetries of the universe.
Physics
The Einstein-Szilárd Letter (1939)
The now famous Einstein-Szilárd letter was written at the initiative of Hungarian nuclear physicist Leó Szilárd with help from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner in 1939.
Feynman
Richard Feynman’s Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram (1985)
«You don’t understand “ordinary people”. To you they are “stupid fools”» Entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram is a unique egg. By age 14, he had written three books on particle physics. He earned his Ph.D. at age 20 and began publishing research papers at the age of 18, some of