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The nature of scientific Breakthroughs is one approach; the process of scientific Breakthroughs is quite another. When physicists reflect on how they do physics, when...

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How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?

Episode 06

Season 21

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Scientific Breakthroughs are discoveries or theories that are milestones and touchstones, signposts and short-cuts, surprises and revelations. How to get at the nature or...

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What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?

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Season 21

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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 are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?

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Season 21

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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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Freeman Dyson, Part II: Mind, God, Religion

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Season 21

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What are Breakthroughs in Biology?

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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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What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part I)

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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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What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part II)

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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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What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part III)

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What is the process by which scientific breakthroughs come about? What are the ways in which breakthroughs in physics occur? No “formula” for breakthroughs — but what...

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How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part I)

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What is the process by which scientific breakthroughs come about? What are the ways in which breakthroughs in physics occur? No “formula” for breakthroughs — but what...

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How Do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part II)

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What is the process by which scientific breakthroughs come about? What are the ways in which breakthroughs in physics occur? No “formula” for breakthroughs — but what...

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How Do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part III)

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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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What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part I)

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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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What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part II)

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Breakthroughs are whole new ways of thinking about biology. Darwinian evolution and the DNA revolution are prime examples. What else? Complex systems? Emergence? Reductionism...

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What are Breakthroughs in Biology? (Part I)

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Breakthroughs are whole new ways of thinking about biology. Darwinian evolution and the DNA revolution are prime examples. What else? Complex systems? Emergence? Reductionism...

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