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Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’
Mike King The five regular polyhedra. Steven Weinberg writes that ‘they satisfy the symmetry requirement that every face, every edge, and every corner should be precisely the same as every other face,...
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The Big Higgs Question
Maximilien Brice/CERN The central part of the Compact Muon Solenoid is lowered into place, Cessy, France, February 28, 2007 The following is part of an introduction to James Baggott’s new book Higgs:...
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The Whig History of Science: An Exchange
To the Editors:Steven Weinberg suggests, in “Eye on the Present—The Whig History of Science” [NYR, December 17, 2015], that historians of science may be permitted to view the past in terms of modern...
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The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
Eric J. Heller The physicist Eric J. Heller’s Transport XIII (2003), inspired by electron flow experiments conducted at Harvard. According to Heller, the image ‘shows two kinds of chaos: a random...
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To the Editors:My article “The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics” [NYR, January 19] provoked a flood of comments. Some were from nonscientists charmed to learn that physicists can disagree with one...
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