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string theory
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Saturday, December 24, 2022
Dimensional analysis
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As long-time readers of Skeptophilia know, it really torques my lug nuts when people take perfectly good scientific terms, re-define them h...
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Dimensional analysis
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Adding to the long list of scientific words that woo-woos misdefine and then misapply, let's consider "dimension." It's ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Bubbles, dimensions, and black holes
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One of the weirder claims of modern physics, which I first ran into when I was reading about string theory a few years ago, is that the univ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Dimensional analysis
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Adding to the long list of scientific words that woo-woos misdefine and then misapply, let's consider "dimension." It's ...
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