Sean Carroll

Just walking right into trouble again. :) Good luck with this!

Where Pi Equals 4 and Circles Aren’t Round (Gift Article) In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat.

If you missed my New York Times series, "Math, Revealed", here are free gift links to it -- no paywall 🕺

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Just learned that one of my faculty colleagues is leaving the US for Europe, due to scientific funding cuts and other changes here. The first I know of but not the last, I suspect.

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
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this is an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to build up a serious program with research resources and opportunities to hire good people.

Philly everywhere 👁️🎬

#Sixers

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That’s a great story, entirely believable, and I had never heard it. Definitely will be deploying.

Epistemic in this sense means that you don’t think the wave function represents physical reality. Many Worlds is proudly realist.

Usually how I am quoted.

Boooo

So sorry to hear. Any students in trouble?

So pointless and sad.

Woohoo!

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

See this is why people have trust issues with science.

Congrats!

“Scientists. Scientists!”

Never anticipated that my profession would become a symbol of how important institutions are under attack, but here we are.

I should add that for whatever reason, I like dress shoes with jeans, but can’t abide casual shoes with a suit. I think the basic outfit sets a baseline for dressiness, everything else needs to be that level or above.

A goth bb player

Caitlin Cunningham is the Goth Aussie BB player, which is cool. Which current or former NBA/WNBA player would be the scariest Goth? I am going with Kevin McHale.
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I could imagine that fundamental physics could someday be entirely figured out. Whether or not that’s conceivable, we’re certainly not there.

Yes.

Surely also the index and/or bibliography.

S.O.H.A.S.T.E.

A First Time for Everything | Sean M. Carroll Scientific theories about the origin of the universe often involve a vigorous give-and-take between speculation and discovery.

Bucket list item checked off: I have a piece in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books @nybooks.com. I review three new (ish) books about cosmology, by Tony Rothman, Will Kinney, and Thomas Hertog.

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Hope you are okay.

In some cases we know that they do make different experimental predictions. In other cases we are not sure, perhaps because not much research is done on the problem…

I think that one’s just wrong

Ah, the rare time I disagree with Derek's conclusion. I completely understand the reasoning, and respect it as a way of thinking about fashion. But I think Oxfords can be fun with all sorts of outfits, even jeans!

(I swear I was not one of the people arguing on the menswear forum back in the day.)

Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.

I’m pro-Everett, but that approach definitely has open problems of its own. Tackling those issues should go hand in hand with applying the approach to other open questions.