Browsing Archive: October, 2016

The Axiom Of Choice

Posted by on Thursday, October 13, 2016, In : Mathematics 
Mathematics is the pinnacle of logic and science.  Most people assume that mathematics is based on solid foundations of logic, and that everything is well understood. Some sciences contain controversies and differing opinions, but surely mathematics is pure and definitive. At the very least the basics that are taught in school must be based indisputable.

And yet deep in the heart of mathematics lies a problem, known as the axiom of choice.

Suppose that you have a collection of boxes, each conta...
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The 2016 Nobel Prize In Physics Goes To...

Posted by on Tuesday, October 4, 2016,
The Nobel Prize in physics was announced today, and it has surprised a lot of people.

As I wrote in my predictions a couple of days ago, the vast majority of the physics community had assumed that the prize would go to the LIGO team for their detection of gravitational waves earlier this year. Many articles on the Nobel prizes had gone so far as to claim that this was a certainty with no other candidates even being considered. And yet the award committee went a different way.

The 2016 Nobel Pri...
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Nobel Predictions

Posted by on Monday, October 3, 2016,
It is that time of year again - the week of the Nobel Prize announcements. And as usual, the academic community is buzzing with discussions of who will be this year's recipient of the most prestigious prize there is.

For many in the physics community this year, there is not much doubt. Most years there are several potential recipients, but the discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO almost guarantees that the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics will go to the team that designed and built it. It is ce...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   

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