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The benefits of Caltech's proximity to Hollywood don't usually trickle down to measly grad students like myself, except in the rare occasions when we befriend the industry's technical contingent. One [...]
Last Friday the 13th was a lucky day for those who love physics --- The online html version of Volume 1 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP) was released! [...]
The elementary school I attended hosted an annual book fair, and every year I went with my mother to browse. I would check out the sports books first, to see [...]
Five years ago, I was staring out one of the few windowed cubicles in a cluttered office full of overambitious salespeople willing to throw their own father under a bus, [...]
Most readers of this blog already know that when it comes to physics, I am faking it. I am a mathematician, after all, and even that is a bit of [...]
This blog has made the terrible decision to ask me to do more regular posts. Well, before trial and error catches up with me, let’s have some fun together… As [...]
John Preskill's lecture, Introduction to Quantum Information (part 1 of 2), given at the 12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information in 2012.
Part 2 of John Preskill’s lecture, Introduction to Quantum Information, given at the 12th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information in 2012.
When Scientific American writes that physicists are working on a theory of everything, does it sound ambitious enough to you? Do you lie awake at night thinking that a theory of [...]
Last Monday was an exciting day! After following the BICEP2 announcement via Twitter, I had to board a transcontinental flight, so I had 5 uninterrupted hours to think about what [...]