Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: theory of everything
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Understanding and Explaining: The Feynman Technique
If you cannot recreate an idea from its elementary components, you do not really understand it — knowing something is not the same as knowing the name of something.
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On the Etiology of Heroes
There are heroes out there, individuals whose words and actions manifest deep and abiding principles, rooted in knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
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The Epistemology of Science
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science.
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Dreams of a Final Theory: The Origin of Fruitcake
The observed half life of fruitcake is stunningly long, with single instances surviving for decades. This may explain fruitcake regifting, the practice of recycling an unwanted gift as a gift to another person. There is, of course, the ultimate question. Why is there any fruitcake at all?