Epstein Secrets

day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of impris

is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré ’s Maps: Empires of Time. Neil Gershenfeld is a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of

fe changing people's worldviews, his recognition among his peers as an intellectual goes well beyond his scientific achievement. He argues (following Karl Popper) that scientific theories are “bold conjectures, ” not derived from evidence but only tested by it. His two main lines of research at the moment—qubi

is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré ’s Maps: Empires of Time. Neil Gershenfeld is a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of

day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of impris

fe changing people's worldviews, his recognition among his peers as an intellectual goes well beyond his scientific achievement. He argues (following Karl Popper) that scientific theories are “bold conjectures, ” not derived from evidence but only tested by it. His two main lines of research at the moment—qubi

words alone. One less something nearer zero, whether that something (the thrift index) is positive or negative, is nearer one. The wonderful books of Einstein (with Enfeld) and Steven Hawking, not to mention Mill, show that even calculus can be put that way. My task has been to follow their tough act. But I

theme from which both reason, as Herbert Spencer taught in the nineteenth century, is what he called “survival of the fittest.” Another philosopher, Karl Popper, found fault with this idea a century later. Popper was one of those | mentioned who disapprove of truisms. | haven’t read Popper, but gather that he