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A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram - http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology. |
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MathPages: Physics - http://www.mathpages.com/home/iphysics.htm
Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics. |
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Wikipedia - EPR Paradox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
Measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part. Entaglment. |
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Experiment in Physics - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado. |
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Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose - http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger |
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Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/
Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French. |
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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts. |
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Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap - http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI). |
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Science, Pseudoscience and Society - http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml
Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links. |
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A New Kind of Science - critical review - http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1
Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram. |