2007.08.20 12:43:32 EDT Philosophical musings on a Monday morning Starting from the Greeks Leucippus and Democritus, plenty of western philosophers and natural scientists alike have subscribed to a deterministic universe. Indeed, the precise laws of Newtonian mechan
2007.08.18 11:04:12 EDT RIP: Ralph Alpher; Max Roach Ralpha Alpher, 86, passed away August 12. He was an early proponent of Big Bang theory, and predicted the residual cosmic microwave background. For most students of physics, however, he is most famous
2007.08.13 19:56:11 EDT Markus Keel's first lecture, or, how I learned to explain what I do for a living and defend myself against physicists Markus Keel, a senpai of mine (who left over 10 years ago), is back in Princeton for the week teaching Nonlinear Wave Equations and stuff for the program "Analysis and Geometry", an NSF Research Train
2007.08.12 12:16:00 EDT First Vista experience Holy macro, so that's why the Math department terminals got an upgrade! It is an arms race! Came into the cluster computer lab today (need to use Adobe Acrobat to edit some things) and found, lo and b