One of my original plans for this blog was to try and explain my own papers to a general audience…
I have been listening to the enjoyable podcast book shambles with Robin Ince and Josie Long. The episode with Fay Dowker, a cosmologist, had me scratching my head at one point. She was discussing how, if people payed attention more carefully to their direct experience of the world, this could have…
After somewhat of a hiatus caused by continuously jumping from place to place over the summer, I wanted to come back to this blog. Today, instead of some physics I wanted to talk about a philosophical problem called Berry’s paradox. This is a paradox I came across some time ago in a philosophy…
In the first blog proper I thought I would discuss a collection of papers on one dimensional systems, i.e. wires. In condensed matter physics when we speak of one dimension, we really only mean it approximately. It is like a very narrow corridor in which…
