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“An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.”
“I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother ...”
“As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein decayed with the dying neurons. Neural connections in the gray ...”
“Joes scientific life is defined by these significant near misses He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost t...”
“We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite...”
“Joe’s scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost...”