Archives

• Getting It Right vs Getting It Done [5/10/24]
• Peer Review in Post-scarcity Academia [5/3/24]
• The Quantum Paths Not Traveled [4/26/24]
• No Unmoved Movers [4/19/24]
• The Hidden Higgs [4/12/24]
• Making More Nails [4/5/24]
• Generalizing a Black Box Theory [3/29/24]
• How Subfields Grow [3/22/24]
• An “Open-Source” Grant Proposal [3/15/24]
• What Are Particles? The Gentle Introduction [3/8/24]
• France for Non-EU Spouses of EU Citizens: To Get Your Rights, Don’t Follow the Rules [3/1/24]
• Book Review: The Case Against Reality [2/23/24]
• Valentine’s Day Physics Poem 2024 [2/16/24]
• Neu-tree-no Detector [2/9/24]
• My Secret, Cap [2/2/24]
• Why We Are Leaving France: The Misadventures of a Trailing Spouse [1/26/24]
• Well That Didn’t Work [1/19/24]
• Generalize [1/12/24]
• LHC Black Hole Reassurance: The Professional Version [1/5/24]
• Models, Large Language and Otherwise [12/29/23]
• Newtonmas Pageants [12/22/23]
• If That Measures the Quantum Vacuum, Anything Does [12/15/23]
• What’s in a Subfield? [12/8/23]
• What Referees Are For [12/1/23]
• A Significant Calculation [11/24/23]
• IPhT-60 Retrospective [11/17/23]
• IPhT’s 60-Year Anniversary [11/10/23]
• Theorems About Reductionism [11/3/23]
• Physics’ Unique Nightmare [10/27/23]
• Neutrinos and Guarantees [10/20/23]
• Academic Hiring: My Field vs. Bret’s [10/13/23]
• Congratulations to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier! [10/6/23]
• On the Care and Feeding of International Employees [9/29/23]
• Cause and Effect and Stories [9/22/23]
• Stories Backwards and Forwards [9/15/23]
• Getting Started in Saclay [9/8/23]
• Cosmology and the Laws of Physics [9/1/23]
• Why You Might Want to Inspire Kids to Be Physicists (And What Movies You’d Make as a Result) [8/25/23]
• Amplitudes 2023 Retrospective [8/18/23]
• At Amplitudes 2023 at CERN [8/11/23]
• En France! [8/4/23]
• It’s Only a Model [7/28/23]
• Small Shifts for Specificity [7/21/23]
• What RIBs Could Look Like [7/14/23]
• Not Made of Photons Either [7/7/23]
• Another Window on Gravitational Waves [6/30/23]
• Cabinet of Curiosities: The Deluxe Train Set [6/23/23]
• Solutions and Solutions [6/16/23]
• Reader Poll: Considering a Move to Substack [6/9/23]
• Learning for a Living [6/2/23]
• Enfin, Permanent [5/26/23]
• Traveling This Week [5/19/23]
• Extrapolated Knowledge [5/12/23]
• Bottlenecks, Known and Unknown [5/5/23]
• Whatever Happened to the Nonsense Merchants? [4/28/23]
• What’s a Cosmic String? [4/21/23]
• Why Are Universities So International? [4/14/23]
• AI Is the Wrong Sci-Fi Metaphor [4/7/23]
• Building the Railroad to Rigor [3/31/23]
• At Geometries and Special Functions for Physics and Mathematics in Bonn [3/24/23]
• Talking and Teaching [3/17/23]
• On Stubbornness and Breaking Down [3/10/23]
• Visiting CERN [3/3/23]
• The Temptation of Spinoffs [2/24/23]
• Valentine’s Day Physics Poem 2023 [2/17/23]
• Why Dark Matter Feels Like Cheating (And Why It Isn’t) [2/10/23]
• All About the Collab [2/3/23]
• LHC Black Holes for the Terminally Un-Reassured [1/27/23]
• Cabinet of Curiosities: The Train-Ladder [1/20/23]
• The Problem of Quantum Gravity Is the Problem of High-Energy (Density) Quantum Gravity [1/13/23]
• The Many Varieties of Journal Club [1/6/23]
• What Might Lie Beyond, and Why [12/30/22]
• When Your Research Is a Cool Toy [12/23/22]
• Simulated Wormhole Analogies [12/16/22]
• Simulated Wormholes for My Real Friends, Real Wormholes for My Simulated Friends [12/9/22]
• This Week at Quanta Magazine [12/2/22]
• Confidence and Friendliness in Science [11/25/22]
• Visiting the IAS [11/18/22]
• Fields and Scale [11/11/22]
• No, PhD Students Are Not Just Cheap Labor [11/4/22]
• Chaos: Warhammer 40k or Physics? [10/28/22]
• From Journal to Classroom [10/21/22]
• Machine Learning, Occam’s Razor, and Fundamental Physics [10/14/22]
• Congratulations to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger! [10/7/22]
• Jumpstarting Elliptic Bootstrapping [9/30/22]
• Cabinet of Curiosities: The Nested Toy [9/23/22]
• At Elliptic Integrals in Fundamental Physics in Mainz [9/16/22]
• Cabinet of Curiosities: The Coaction [9/9/22]
• Cabinet of Curiosities: The Cubic [9/2/22]
• Why the Antipode Was Supposed to Be Useless [8/26/22]
• Amplitudes 2022 Retrospective [8/19/22]
• At Amplitudes 2022 in Prague [8/12/22]
• At Bohr-100: Current Themes in Theoretical Physics [8/5/22]
• Shape the Science to the Statistics, Not the Statistics to the Science [7/29/22]
• Covering the Angles [7/22/22]
• The Folks With the Best Pictures [7/15/22]
• The Conference Dilemma: Freshness vs. Breadth [7/8/22]
• Einstein-Years [7/1/22]
• Proxies for Proxies [6/24/22]
• Carving Out the Possible [6/17/22]