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What’s wrong with scientific research according to Sabine Hossenfelder

An interesting speech by Sabine Hossenfelder: “A few words on some well-known and perhaps lesser-known problems in scientific research and what others have said about them.”

In essence: “Scientific research has big problems, and it’s getting worse”.

 

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A historical photo

Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927

Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927 (photo by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Bruxelles, Belgium; I have slightly restored this photo, usually available in a lower detail level).

From behind, left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin, Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson

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Overview of time at the beginning of modern science

A short essay on Time at the beginning of modern science.
A personal perspective, not just an epistemological one.
It’s part of a work developed on the epistemology of time, and it’s written in italian.

pdf_ita  Brussi 2024_Panoramica sul tempo agli inizi della scienza moderna

 

Brussi 2024_Panoramica sul tempo agli inizi della scienza moderna

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II Jeans equation in cylindrical coordinates

We derive the II Jeans equation (the Jeans equations are a set of partial differential equations that describe the motion of a collection of stars in a gravitational field) from the collisionless Boltzman equation (CBE) in cylindrical coordinates.

pdf  Brussi 2024_Jeans equation in cylindrical coordinates

 

Jeans equation in cylindrical coordinates

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