My Science & Epistemology Researches
Posts relating to reviews, not only personal, on scientific and epistemological works and topics
“Free thoughts by Richard Feynman -highly relatable and easy to agree with- taken from a 1981 BBC interview. From the Italian version (Adelphi Edizioni) of his book The Pleasure of Finding Out.
Feynman Il piacere di scoprire pp.40-42
A new video by Sabine Hossenfelder on simultaneity, well explained. Simultaneity is an aspect of our time that should be taken into greater consideration in all our theoretical developments in any field of knowledge. Instead, it is largely ignored.
A very thorough article with examples of the Feynman trick for integration (differentiation under the integral sign). But even in the simplest cases it is a precious tool.
Zaharia Burghelea “Feynman’s Trick”
After a hiatus from 2021, I’m resuming my online presence with this small collection of suggestions, seeking intellectual dialogue. Let me know what you think in the comments or via email.
Thanks
p.s. I posted with the dates of the original documents
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”.
A nice speech by Sabine Hossenfelder on the search for the meaning of a scientific theory or the universe.
She promotes her online courses too… so we get at least one answer about the point of the video 🙂
She quotes from a book of Steven Weinberg: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”, and in the video she speculates about what he might have meant.
“Is the universe pointless?”
A brief review of Thomas Kuhn’s great 1962 essay. A foundation for all subsequent epistemology.
It’s a work developed to complement another on the epistemology of time, and it’s written in italian.
Brussi 2021_La struttura delle rivoluzioni scientifiche
A brief review of Richard Feynman’s proof of Kepler’s first law.
(Under 15,000 keystrokes were needed; this work of mine is written in Italian)
Brussi 2020_Feynman e la prima legge di Kepler
The full title clarifies the abstract of this excellent book by Sabine Hossenfelder: “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.”
As always, she highlights the enormous problems in the foundations of physics. These are caused, among other things, by aesthetic priorities in building physical models, rather than engaging with observations of Nature.
Carlo Rovelli‘s excellent book demonstrates that, “to understand ourselves, we must reflect on time, and to understand time, we must reflect on ourselves”.
In my personal view, time does not exist in Nature; rather, it is an anthropogenic construct, used to interpret the natural world and to develop our technological systems. Ultimately, it is an indispensable tool, and if, as Rovelli suggests, it helps us reflect on ourselves, then it is doubly so.
