Physics Gene
I write about the real intuition behind physics concepts, explained the way a curious person actually wants to understand them. One deep-dive a week that changes how you see the universe
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God Does Play Dice: Einstein's Beautiful Mistake
In 1964 a physicist from Belfast turned a thirty-year argument into a single number you could measure. When the measurement finally came back, it broke something every physicist assumed was safe.
On Monday I left you in that room in Brusse...
The Smartest Photo Ever Taken
Twenty-nine people sat for this photograph in October 1927. Seventeen of them either had already won, or would go on to win, the Nobel Prize.
Read that again. Not twenty-nine good scientists. Seventeen Nobel laureates, in one room, holding...
How Randomness Creates Order
Run lightning through a jar of dead gas for a week, and the building blocks of life settle at the bottom. Randomness was supposed to make a mess. It made an alphabet.
In 1952, a twenty-two-year-old graduate student sealed a few cheap gases...
The Physics of Randomness
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If we open this valve right now, without thinking, you know that these particles will distribute themselves equally b...
Nature Hates Infinity
Every time the equations cough up infinity, something has just broken. Except, maybe, in the one place we can never go to check
Monday I left you somewhere uncomfortable. Two sizes of infinity. One bigger than the other, both of them endle...
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