Frank Wilczek

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Physicists produce video of time crystal in action 😱

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Scicomm BESSY II Bose-Einstein condensates energy conservation Frank Wilczek Joachim Gräfe magnons MAXYMUS Pauli's exclusion principle phonons quasiparticles space crystals space time crystals spin waves superfluidity synchrotron light source thermodynamic ground state time crystals

Have you heard of time crystals? A crystal is any object whose atoms are arranged in a fixed pattern in space, with the pattern repeating itself. So what we typically know to be crystals are really s…

Some notes on empiricism, etc.

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Uncategorized Acharya Kanad aesthetics Alfred Shapere dichotomy empiricism epistemology formal science Frank Wilczek Hilary Putnam history knowledge naturalness nature science Philosophy of Science rationalism sense experience Social Sciences string theory time crystals

The Wire published a story about the 'atoms of Acharya Kanad' (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university in Gujarat claimed an ancient Indian sage had put forth the theory of atoms centuri…