CJ on Mathematics and Science

Einstein starts out his 1905 Special Theory of Relativity SR by an analysis of  simultaneity similar to that presented in 1898 by the mathem...

Jean Bricmont starts his new book Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics with: This book is both apparently ambitious and modest in its aims. ...

Consider a wavefunction $\psi$  for an atom with $N$ electrons as a sum of $N$ functions $\psi_1(x)$,…,$\psi_N(x)$, all depending on a commo...

Eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian for the Hydrogen atom with eigenvalues representing the sum of kinetic and potential energies, with Schr...

The Edge web site hosts a collection of 173 articles on the theme What Science is Ready for Retirement?  including the following highlights...

To get perspective on the state of physics today it is instructive to recall the beginning of modern physics marked by the special theory...

Physics has the top position in the hierarchy of sciences because physics is the science where a Principle of Objectivity (PO) comes to its ...

In Many-Minds Relativity and Many-Minds Quantum Mechanics I explore an idea which can also be applied to cosmology, as discussed in previo...

Elimination of the One Mind of Louis XVI witnessed by Many Minds: Birth of modernity. In Dr Faustus of Modern Physics I describe how modern...