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February 9, 2021 history of science / long form / mathematics / philosophy of science / physics / science

The shape of things to come

Why did non-Euclidean geometry take so long to find its way into physics? (7700 words)

March 4, 2019 astronomy / physics / technology

In praise of astonishment

Does our love of the new and strange, both in literature and science, flow from the same wellspring? On the restorative power of surprise. (900 words)

February 18, 2019 opinion / physics

We are all the Tin Woodman

In what sense are we the same person today as yesterday? (2200 words)

May 17, 2018 astronomy / history of science / long form / philosophy of science / physics / publications

Learning to see [Aeon, American Scientist]

One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected? (3900 words)

April 25, 2016 long form / physics / publications

A physics without time [Aeon]

From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? (3600 words)

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