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| Date | 2015-10-27 |
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| Message | Hey George! Aaron here from the SciAm days. Wanted to run a Fine Homebuilding article idea by you that might be of interest. Best, Aaron |
| Date | 2015-10-24 |
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| Message | I do want to respect your time. I am an artist (age 62) and the exhibition designer at the Spencer Museum of Art which is part of the University of Kansas. I am very much interested in your thoughts and wonder if you would allow a follow-up email with a couple of art related questions? |
| Date | 2015-10-21 |
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| Message | Your name and occupation caught my eye. We probably are not very closely related. My parents were from Lancaster, Pa. I have written an article questioning the idea that particles behave as if they are waves taking all paths possible. I suggest an experiment that would rule out or confirm that particles are ever simply waves. I have sent it to several magazines but have had no response thus far. Would you spend 15 minuies looking it over? My credentials are impressive. I have learned everything about quantum physics by reading a dozen or more popular explanations, including your own book. My MA plus is in English Literature. Sometimes it takes someone who has not been indoctrinated to see the obvious. |
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Private Message added 2015-08-30 |
| Date | 2015-08-28 |
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| Message | George, In regards to you recent Scientific American article (Sept. 2015) “Is the Cosmos Random”: It was a breath of fresh air to read such a brilliant article on the behavior of systems at various “levels”. The argument that quantum effects explain the behavior of macro-states, planets, volcanoes, Giraffes, people has always been absurd to me. I have argued for years with scientists that the physics of a system is a matter of scale. Here you use the terminology of “levels”. For instance: Quantum mechanics explains the physics at the atomic scale. Newtonian mechanics explains physics at the macro level. General Relativity explains physics at the massive, and largest of scales – the expanding universe. There is even a correspondence principle between atomic and macro states and Einstein always constrained the physics of general relativity to Newtonian mechanics in the limit of small mass/slow speeds. Which means that yes, there is a thread of physics that connects all phenomena but there is no “unifying theory” or “theory of everything” that will ever explain all physical phenomena at all scales. And your concluding statement: “Our body and brain are little multiverses, and it is the multiplicity of possibility that endows us with freedom” is a powerful and meaningful statement on many levels  . Thanks. Paul Sherard University of Hawaii |
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