| Experiments in Physics - By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado.
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| Chapter from "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.
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| Philosophy and Foundations - A collection of links, from Norman Redington at MIT.
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| Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory - Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. By Steven French of Leeds University.
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| Philosophical Foundations of Physics - Chapters 23 through 26 of this 1966 work.
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| Science, Pseudoscience and Society - Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links.
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| Consciousness, Life and Meaning - Essay on evolution and consciousness by Piero Scaruffi.
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| Teaching Symmetry in Introductory Physics - Modern physics is largely defined by fundamental symmetry principles and Noether's Theorem. It requires little more than high school algebra to understand and manipulate these concepts. We prescribe a symmetry module to insert into the curriculum, of a few weeks length.
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| Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose - His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger
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| Physics Time-Line - From the Copernican Revolution to superstrings, a chronology of more than 500 of the greatest discoveries in natural philosophy.
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| History Page - Historical timelines in mathematics, physics, and politics
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| Quantum Quackery - Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection.
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| Digital Philosophy -- Discrete Physics - Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete.
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| Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law! - What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy
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| Philosophy of Physics - A collection of articles and notes from Soshichi Uchii, at Kyoto University.
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| The Mind of God - A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues.
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| PhysicsWeb - This is Your Philosophy - Are physicists realists? - results of a poll.
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| Space and Time: Inertial Frames - Frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle.
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| Complexity and Life - Information and links on the work of the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen (1934-1998).
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| Physics on MathPages - Articles, leaning towards a mathematical description, on a wide range of topics in physics.
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| A New Kind of Science - critical review - Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram.
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| Event-Symmetric Space-Time - Book by Philip Gibbs, full text online, regards spacetime as a set of discrete events.
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| Wikipedia - EPR Paradox - On the experiment to show that a measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part.
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| The Bactra Reviews - A set of book and article reviews, not limited to physics.
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| A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram - Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology.
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