Interpretations
Jim BaggottEssays by Jim Baggott on the frontiers of science and the interfaces of science, philosophy, and history.
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The Harvard Computers
Today (23 October) is UK publication day for my new book Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant. (Sorry America, you’ll have to wait until 22 January, 2026.) More details here: Books | Jim Baggott
The Hubble constant, whi...
Remembering the Reading Rock Festival 1975
This is a rare kind of post for Interpretations. I’ve been quiet for the last couple of months as I’m building up to a series of posts on the subject of the interpretation of quantum theory (stay tuned), but I can’t let an important persona...
Discordance (Preface)
My next book, titled Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant, will be published by Oxford University Press on 23 October this year (22 January 2026 in the US). This is a history of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology spa...
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paper
In an earlier essay, I described how in 1927 Albert Einstein and Danish physicist Niels Bohr engaged in a debate that was notionally about the interpretation of quantum theory, but was in fact concerned with the very purpose of science itse...
Operation Gunnerside: The Real Heroes of Telemark
In Part 1 of this two-part essay, I explained that by March 1940 physicists on both sides of the war had discovered two approaches to making an atomic bomb. In the first, quantities of the fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) would need...
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Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer, specialising in science, philosophy of science, and science history. He was awarded a Glaxo Science Writer’s prize in 1992, and his book 'Mass' won the ‘Cosmos’ Prize for Science Writing in 2020.
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