Science explores how the world works. Breakthroughs drive science, challenging conventional wisdom, changing ways of thinking. Physics is foundational. What are Breakthroughs...
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What characterizes breakthroughs in physics, historically and prospectively? Relativity and quantum mechanics were breakthroughs of the absolute largest and smallest forces...
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Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire and creatively disruptive: realities inaccessible to science, independent mental, mind in the cosmos, science and theology, even...
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What is the nature of mathematical breakthroughs? What are common characteristics among diverse mathematical fields? What are specific signs of mathematical breakthroughs?...
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Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire, was one of the most inventive thinkers of our age: discovering new mathematics, challenging fundamental physics, colonizing space,...
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In 1960, the physicist Eugene Wigner published an article, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,” which has attracted great...
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What is the nature of scientific breakthroughs? What are common characteristics among all the sciences? What are specific signs of breakthroughs in physics and biology?...
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