Lautaro Vergara / is on Nostr

Physicist.

Too many interesting things to learn, too few time.
Born at 316.91 ppm

Last Notes

2025-02-24 13:28:16

QUOTE OF THE DAY
Of course, the maximum-entropy algorithm originated with Boltzmann and Gibbs. But in their writings they did not make its meaning crystal clear --Boltzmann because he was not very clear in his own mind, repeatedly changing his position, and Gibbs because his work was left unfinished. In Gibbs' 'Heterogeneous Equilibrium' (1875-1878), in fact, we find a much clearer and deeper explanation of the properties of entropy than in his final work, Statistical Mechanics (1902). Therefore, as far as the rationale of the method was concerned, Boltzmann and Gibbs left a kind of vacuum that was filled, as such vacua always are, by followers whose thinking had little in common with that of Boltzmann, and nothing in common with that of Gibbs.
-- Edwin Thompson Jaynes

2025-01-14 16:19:16

QUOTE OF THE DAY
What if Einstein had never been born, and the General Theory of Relativity had never been created? How would high energy theorists understand gravity?
-Richard Feynman, 1962

2024-09-12 11:49:45

HISTORY OF PHYSICS
Michael Faraday and the first attempt of a Unified Theory.
On March 19, 1849, Faraday's diary records:
'Gravity. Surely this force must be capable of an experimental relation to Electricity, Magnetism and the other forces, so as to bind it up with them in reciprocal action and equivalent effect. Consider for a moment how to set about touching this matter by facts and trial'.
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