昨天说起老庄的宇宙学,引出了Penrose的新发现。前些日子也说过, Penrose 刚出了本新书,普及 他的时间轮回 : Cycles of Time, An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (The Bodley Head, 2010)( http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id ...
最近, David Kaiser 写了一本题目十分诱人的书: How the Hippies Saved Physics, Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival ,记述了 一段新文化和新物理学的历史。 嬉皮士( hippies )是1960年代中期开始流行的时尚,那个词儿是 ...
新收到一个书稿, For the Love of Physics, From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of TimeA Journey Through the Wonders of Physics (Free Press, 2011),作者是MIT的老教授 Walter Lewin (和他的作家朋友 Warren Goldstein )。Lewin在MIT很受欢迎,淘课的同学也许更喜 ...
Nothing happens because theres not enough real activity and challenge: youre not in contact with the experimental guys. You dont have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing! 这段话抄在笔记本里,没有上 ...