Stay updated with breaking news from John Heilbron. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares "an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics," published this week in Nature. Its title? "'Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality." [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels Bohr came to domin...
By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day. By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.
Rigorous historian who shed light on how researchers’ personalities and institutions are central to the development of scientific knowledge. Rigorous historian who shed light on how researchers’ personalities and institutions are central to the development of scientific knowledge.
Historian of science whose books, including a biography of Galileo, helped to debunk several myths