The Curious Wavefunction
Musings on science, history, philosophy and literature
Simple, atypical but neat estimation of energy released in fission
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Simple but neat atypical calculation of energy released in fission (from Glasstone and Sesonske, “Nuclear Reactor Engineering”). It’s a nice...
Book Review: "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia", by Gregory Wallance
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It may seem hard to believe now, but in 1865, by the time the Civil War ended, Russia was America's best friend in Europe. The two count...
Jack Dunitz (1923-2021): Chemist And Writer Extraordinaire
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Every once in a while there is a person of consummate achievement in a field, a person who while widely known to workers in that field is vi...
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How Niels Bohr predicted Rydberg atoms
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In Niels Bohr's original 1913 formulation of the quantum atom, the Bohr radius r was proportional to n^2, n being the principal quantu...
Galton's "Hereditary Genius" (1871)
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As someone who loved collecting vintage books, I was stoked to acquire a first American edition of Francis Galton's pioneering book “He...
John Polkinghorne's "Belief in God in an Age of Science"
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A book I have been enjoying recently is John Polkinghorne's "Belief in God in an Age of Science." Polkinghorne who died recent...
Tolman, “The Principles of Statistical Mechanics, Chapter 1, Part 1
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Survey of classical mechanics: Generalized coordinates and momenta. Lagrangian equations. Derivation of Hamilton’s equations from Lagrangian...
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100 Desert Island Books
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Finally got around to making that "100 books I would want on a desert island" list. Another title would be "100 books that I ...
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Brenner, von Neumann and Schrödinger
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Erwin Schrödinger's book, "What is Life"?, inspired many scientists like Crick, Watson and Perutz to go into molecular biology...
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