induction
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Proof
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If you’ve been intrigued (but possibly unconvinced) by my recent arguments about induction and the nature of scientific proof, go read Sean Carroll’s riff on the distinction between belief and proof in science. When we’re discussing the existence of quarks (or superstings), this may seem a literally academic argument, but these distinctions surface in ongoing…
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Cosmology, Philosophy and Topology in Edinburgh
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I’m just back from a couple of days up in Edinburgh, one of my favorite cities in the UK. London is bigger, more intense, but Edinburgh is more beautiful, dominated by its landscape–London is New York to Edinburgh’s San Francisco. I was up there to give the Edinburgh University Physics “General Interest Seminar”. Mostly, I…
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