Paul Halpern

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Physicist and Science Writer. Author of nineteen books, most recently THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE: ERNST MACH, LUDWIG BOLTZMANN, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE ESSENCE OF REALITY https://greatatomdebate.com/

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'The non-mathematician is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he hears of “four-dimensional” things, by a feeling not unlike that awakened by thoughts of the occult. And yet there is no more commonplace statement than that the world in which we live is a 4D space-time continuum.' -Albert Einstein

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'You know I am in disagreement with most of my colleagues on the quantum theory.

They are not facing the facts [and] have abandoned reason!

Bohr's thinking is clear but when he begins to write he becomes very obscure and he thinks of himself as a prophet.'

-Albert Einstein

#science #quantum

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Hamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.

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'The non-mathematician is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he hears of “four-dimensional” things, by a feeling not unlike that awakened by thoughts of the occult. And yet there is no more commonplace statement than that the world in which we live is a 4D space-time continuum.' -Albert Einstein

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Yes, named "Burschie (Laddie)." I dug up that piece of information from an archived interview with his daughter Ruth Braunizer. So you may have read something I wrote about that.

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