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- “AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. ”
- “He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse: OpenAI’s Chatbot Self-Reported It Blurred Line between Fantasy and Reality With Man on Autism Spectrum. ‘Stakes Are Higher’ for Vulnerable People, Firm Says ”, Jargon 2025
- “You Can Use Any Phone With a Barometer to Make a Scale. All IPhones Since the 6… ”, cryptozo 2025
- “Time Machine As Existential Risk ”, Turchin 2025
- “How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? Studies of Neural Metabolism Reveal Our Brain’s Effort to Keep Us Alive and the Evolutionary Constraints That Sculpted Our Most Complex Organ ”, Feehly 2025
- “The Metabolic Costs of Cognition ”, Jamadar et al 2025
- “Neural Thermodynamic Laws for Large Language Model Training ”, Liu et al 2025
- “Active Optical Intensity Interferometry ”, Liu et al 2025
- “Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away: A High-Resolution Imaging System Captures Distant Objects by Shining Laser Light on Them and Detecting the Reflected Light ”, Schirber 2025
- “Testing the Limit of Atmospheric Predictability With a Machine Learning Weather Model ”, Vonich & Hakim 2025
- “LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets ”, Simonds 2025
- “Experimental Demonstration of Electric Power Generation from Earth’s Rotation through Its Own Magnetic Field ”, Chyba et al 2025
- “Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems: It’s Been Difficult to Find Important Questions That Quantum Computers Can Answer Faster Than Classical Machines, but a New Algorithm Appears to Do It for Some Critical Optimization Tasks ”, Ornes 2025
- “‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability ”
- “Intuitive Physics Understanding Emerges from Self-Supervised Pretraining on Natural Videos ”, Garrido et al 2025
- “Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body ”, Scherrer 2025
- “Learned Magnetic Map Cues and Two Mechanisms of Magnetoreception in Turtles ”, Goforth et al 2025
- “Do Generative Video Models Learn Physical Principles from Watching Videos? ”, Motamed et al 2025
- “Probabilistic Weather Forecasting With Machine Learning ”, Price et al 2024
- “Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024—#73 § Culture of Science in China & AI Arms Races ”, Hsu 2024
- “How Far Is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective ”, Kang et al 2024
- “Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 2) ”
- “Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry ”, Jordan et al 2024
- “Statistical Patterns in the Equations of Physics and the Emergence of a Meta-Law of Nature ”, Constantin et al 2024
- “Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whales [Terminal Velocity: 178.3 M/s] ”, Ferguson 2024
- “Aurora: A Foundation Model for the Earth System ”, Bodnar et al 2024
- “Weather Forecasts Have Become Much More Accurate; We Now Need to Make Them Available to Everyone: A 4-Day Forecast Today Is As Accurate As a 1-Day Forecast 30 Years Ago ”, Ritchie 2024
- “The Ultraviolet Myth ”, Bomark & Renstrøm 2024
- “GenCast: Diffusion-Based Ensemble Forecasting for Medium-Range Weather ”, Price et al 2023
- “The Virial Theorem and the Price Equation ”, Liorsdóttir & Pachter 2023
- “Scaling Transformer Neural Networks for Skillful and Reliable Medium-Range Weather Forecasting ”, Nguyen et al 2023
- “GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark ”, Rein et al 2023
- “The Impact of Large Language Models on Scientific Discovery: a Preliminary Study Using GPT-4 ”, AI4Science & Quantum 2023
- “Fair Coins Tend to Land on the Same Side They Started: Evidence from 350,757 Flips ”, Bartoš et al 2023
- “How to Build a Computer Using Origami ”, Green 2023
- “Flat Origami Is Turing Complete ”, Hull & Zakharevich 2023
- “Connecting Spatial Thinking to STEM Learning through Visualizations ”, Taylor et al 2023
- “Foundations of Algorithmic Thermodynamics ”, Ebtekar & Hutter 2023
- “Synthetic Lagrangian Turbulence by Generative Diffusion Models ”, Li et al 2023
- “Advances in Apparent Conceptual Physics Reasoning in GPT-4 ”, West 2023
- “Model Scale versus Domain Knowledge in Statistical Forecasting of Chaotic Systems ”, Gilpin 2023
- “Six Experiments in Action Minimization ”, Greydanus 2023
- “Finding Paths of Least Action With Gradient Descent ”, Greydanus 2023
- “The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows] ”, Casati & Cavanagh 2023
- “ClimaX: A Foundation Model for Weather and Climate ”, Nguyen et al 2023
- “AI Insights into Theoretical Physics and the Swampland Program: A Journey Through the Cosmos With ChatGPT ”, Lehnert 2023
- “GraphCast: Learning Skillful Medium-Range Global Weather Forecasting ”, Lam et al 2022
- “Black-Hole Radiation Decoding Is Quantum Cryptography ”, Brakerski 2022
- “Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution Model for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast ”, Bi et al 2022
- “The Flow from Simulation to Reality ”, Zsolnai-Fehér 2022
- “Machine Learning Helps Control Tokamak Plasmas ”, Georgescu 2022
- “Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas through Deep Reinforcement Learning ”, Degrave et al 2022
- “Clock: 解説 ”
- “Quantum Advantage in Learning from Experiments ”, Huang et al 2021
- “Behind the Scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the Role of Gravitation in Physics ”, Rickles 2021
- “Bayesian Inference of the Climbing Grade Scale ”, Drummond & Popinga 2021
- “Advances in Neural Rendering ”, Tewari et al 2021
- “Life in a Random Universe: Sciama’s Argument Reconsidered ”, Wang & Braunstein 2021
- “Quantum-Enhanced Nonlinear Microscopy ”, Casacio et al 2021
- “Structural Basis of Assembly and Torque Transmission of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor ”, Tan et al 2021
- “Reality As a Vector in Hilbert Space ”, Carroll 2021
- “The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes ”, Carroll 2021
- “The Thermodynamics of Clocks ”, Milburn 2020
- “Lights and Shadows ”, Ciechanowski 2020
- “CERN Makes Bold Push to Build €21-Billion Supercollider: European Particle-Physics Lab Will Pursue a 100-Kilometre Machine to Uncover the Higgs Boson’s Secrets—But It Doesn’t yet Have the Funds ”, Castelvecchi & Gibney 2020
- “GNS: Learning to Simulate Complex Physics With Graph Networks ”, Sanchez-Gonzalez et al 2020
- “Portable Magnetometry for Detection of Biomagnetism in Ambient Environments ”, Limes et al 2020
- “Video-Guided Real-To-Virtual Parameter Transfer for Viscous Fluids ”, Takahashi & Lin 2019
- “Schrödinger’s Zombie: Adam Brown at the 6th FQXi Meeting ”, Musser 2019
- “Universal Quantum Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning ”, Niu et al 2019
- “Linking Plasma Formation in Grapes to Microwave Resonances of Aqueous Dimers ”, Khattak et al 2019
- “The New Science of Seeing Around Corners: Computer Vision Researchers Have Uncovered a World of Visual Signals Hiding in Our Midst, including Subtle Motions That Betray What’s Being Said and Faint Images of What’s around a Corner ”, Fisker 2018
- “Blueberry Earth ”, Sandberg 2018
- “Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders ”, Morley & Robert 2018
- “The Price of Gravity: Private Patronage and the Transformation of Gravitational Physics After World War II ”, Kaiser & Rickles 2018
- “Increasing Arctic Sea Ice Albedo Using Localized Reversible Geoengineering ”, Field et al 2018
- “Law without Law: from Observer States to Physics via Algorithmic Information Theory ”, Mueller 2017
- “Sound Pressures Generated by Exploding Eggs ”, Nash & Blohn 2017
- “Quark-Level Analogue of Nuclear Fusion With Doubly-Heavy Baryons ”, Karliner & Rosner 2017
- “Accelerating Science With Generative Adversarial Networks: An Application to 3D Particle Showers in Multi-Layer Calorimeters ”, Paganini et al 2017
- “Science Needs Reason to Be Trusted ”, Hossenfelder 2017
- “Blind Analysis As a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology ”, MacCoun & Perlmutter 2017
- “Laboratory Layered Latte ”
- “What Does Any of This Have To Do With Physics? Einstein and Feynman Ushered Me into Grad School, Reality Ushered Me Out ”, Henderson 2016
- “The Golden Age of Calcutta Physics: Difficulties in Reconstructing the History ”, Choudhuri 2016
- “Quantifying the Evolution of Individual Scientific Impact ”, Sinatra et al 2016
- “Metaphysics of the Principle of Least Action ”, Terekhovich 2015
- “Finite Time Blowup for an Averaged Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equation ”, Tao 2014
- “Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers ”, Nemiroff & Wilson 2013
- “Ballooning Spiders: The Case for Electrostatic Flight ”, Gorham 2013
- “Osmosis Is Not Driven by Water Dilution ”, Kramer & Myers 2013
- “Niels Bohr between Physics and Chemistry: Bohr’s Atomic Theory Was Addressed As Much to Chemical Problems As to Physical Ones. But the Great Scientist’s Intent to Establish a New Framework for Atomic and Molecular Chemistry Was Less Successful, and Was Unacknowledged by Most Chemists ”, Kragh 2013
- “Wet Mammals Shake at Tuned Frequencies to Dry ”, Dickerson et al 2012
- “On the Tumbling Toast Problem ”, Borghi 2012
- “Thermodynamics As a Theory of Decision-Making With Information Processing Costs ”, Ortega & Braun 2012
- “Predicting the Outcome of Roulette ”, Small & Tse 2012
- “The Thermodynamics of Prediction ”, Still et al 2012
- “Ultrasonic Heating and Temperature Measurement in Microfluidic Channels ”, Yaralioglu 2011
- “A Bicycle Can Be Self-Stable Without Gyroscopic or Caster Effects ”, Kooijman et al 2011
- “The Snowflake Man of Vermont ”, Heidorn 2011
- “Algorithmic Thermodynamics ”, Baez & Stay 2010
- “The Quantum Mechanics of Time Travel through Post-Selected Teleportation ”, Lloyd et al 2010
- “John Von Neumann and Klaus Fuchs: an Unlikely Collaboration ”, Bernstein 2010
- “Spatial Coherence from Ducks ”, Knox et al 2010
- “The Black Hole Case: The Injunction Against the End of the World ”, Johnson 2009
- “A Formal Proof of the Born Rule from Decision-Theoretic Assumptions ”, Wallace 2009
- “Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone ”, Baez & Stay 2009
- “The Physical Principles of Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial Confinement Fusion, and the Quest for Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons ”, Gsponer & Hurni 2009
- “Torsion Balance Experiments: A Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics ”, Adelberger et al 2009
- “A Universe Without Weak Interactions ”, Harnik et al 2006
- “Modeling Bursts and Heavy Tails in Human Dynamics ”, Vazquez et al 2005
- “Patent Office Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein ”, Norvig 2005
- “NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality ”, Aaronson 2005
- “Blind Analysis In Nuclear And Particle Physics ”, Klein & Roodman 2005
- “The Extraordinarily Beautiful Physical Principle of Thermonuclear Charge Design (On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Test of RDS-37—The First Soviet Two-Stage Thermonuclear Charge) ”, Goncharov 2005
- “Comment on ‘Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (2002)]–Galileo and the Existence of Hell ”, Pesic 2002
- “Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass ”, Kovar 2002
- “Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws ”, Peterson 2002
- “Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s ”, Ioffe 2002
- “A Closer Look at Tumbling Toast ”, Bacon et al 2001
- “Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire ”, Collins 2001
- “Accurate and Efficient Simulation of Rigid-Body Rotations ”, Buss 2000
- “The Underwater Sounds Produced by Impacting Snowflakes ”, Crum et al 1999
- “Ultimate Physical Limits to Computation ”, Lloyd 1999
- “Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions ”, Deutsch 1999
- “SnowCrystals.com ”, Libbrecht 1999
- “Story Of Your Life ”, Chiang 1999
- “The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a Teenager Attempts to Build a Breeder Reactor ”, Silverstein 1998
- “Feynman’s War: Modeling Weapons, Modeling Nature ”, Galison 1998
- “Leading Scientists Still Reject God ”, Larson & Witham 1998
- “Collective Dynamics of ‘Small-World’ Networks ”, Watts & Strogatz 1998
- “Quantum Effects in Algorithms ”, Jozsa 1998
- “"Interaction-Free" Imaging ”, White et al 1998
- “P/NP, and the Quantum Field Computer ”, Freedman 1998
- “Classical Computation Can Be Counterfactual 1996-09-02 V1.1 (Or Can Schrodinger’s Cat Collapse the Wavefunction?) ”, Bowden 1997
- “Interaction-Free Measurements ”, Vaidman 1996
- “Tumbling Toast, Murphy’s Law and the Fundamental Constants ”, Matthews 1995
- “p-Adic Probability Interpretation of Bell’s Inequality ”, Khrennikov 1995
- “Probability of a Tossed Coin Landing on Edge ”, Murray & Teare 1993
- “(Para)bosons, (Para)fermions, Quons and Other Beasts in the Menagerie of Particle Statistics ”, Greenberg et al 1993
- “Force Concept Inventory ”
- “Quantum Mechanics near Closed Timelike Lines ”, Deutsch 1991
- “Time Travel and Computing ”, Moravec 1991
- “Probability Theory As Logic ”, Jaynes 1990
- “Clearing up Mysteries—The Original Goal ”, Jaynes 1989
- “Physics in Budapest: A Survey ”, Radnai & Kunfalvi 1988
- “Henry Adams, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Course of History ”, Burich 1987
- “Assessing Uncertainty in Physical Constants ”, Henrion & Fischhoff 1986
- “Two Theories of Home Heat Control ”, Kempton 1986
- “Practicing Western Science Outside the West: Personal Observations on the Indian Scene ”, Choudhuri 1985
- “Oliver Heaviside (1850–1927)—Physical Mathematician ”, Edge 1983
- Law Without Law, Wheeler 1983
- “Conservative Logic ”, Fredkin & Toffoli 1982
- “Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics ”, Hofstadter 1981 (page 21)
- “Geometry from a Time Series ”, Packard et al 1980
- “Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975): A Biographical Memoir ”, Alvarez 1980
- “Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell ”, Astin 1979 (page 12)
- “The Physics of a Push-Me Pull-You Boat ”, Blackford 1978
- “Life at Low Reynolds Number ”, Purcell 1977
- “Effects of World War II on Education in Science ”, Bowden 1975
- “Biological Populations With Non-Overlapping Generations: Stable Points, Stable Cycles, and Chaos ”, May 1974
- “Why Do Mirrors Reverse Right/Left but Not Up/Down? ”, Block 1974
- “Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler To Einstein ”, Holton 1973
- “Will a Large Complex System Be Stable? ”, May 1972
- “Image Rotation Devices—A Comparative Survey ”, Swift 1972
- “Physics and the Thales Problem ”, Feinberg 1966
- “Death of a Project: Research Is Stopped on a System of Space Propulsion Which Broke All the Rules of the Political Game ”, Dyson 1965
- “Kepler’s Conversation With Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger: First Complete Translation, With an Introduction and Notes ”, Kepler & Rosen 1965
- Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom, Andrade 1964
- “November 1963 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ”, Scientists 1963
- “The Dematerialization of Matter ”, Hanson 1962
- “Max Planck and the Beginnings of the Quantum Theory ”, Klein 1961
- “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Crystals ”, McCall & Hamming 1959
- “Geons ”, Wheeler 1955
- “Turbidity Currents and Submarine Slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks [Newfoundland] Earthquake ”, Heezen & Ewing 1952
- “How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation ”, Miller 1951
- “The Logic of Quantum Mechanics ”, Birkhoff & Neumann 1936
- “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview ”, Viereck & Einstein 1929
- “On Being The Right Size ”, Haldane 1927
- “Possible Worlds and Other Essays ”, Haldane 1927
- “The Effect of Size on the Equipment of the Queen’s Dolls’ House ”, O’Gorman 1924
- “Ist Die Trägheit Eines Körpers Von Seinem Energieinhalt Abhängig? [Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon Its Energy-Content?] ”, Einstein 1905
- “No Physics? No Problem. AI Weather Forecasting Is Already Making Huge Strides. ”
- “WeatherBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Data-Driven Weather Forecasting ”
- “Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial ”
- “Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) ”
- “The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student: John Bardeen, the Leading Condensed Matter Theorist of His Day, Was Quite Wrong When He Dismissed a Startling Prediction by the Unknown Brian Josephson ”, McDonald 2025
- “Is There Suffering in Fundamental Physics? ”
- “River Runner Global: Tap to Drop a Raindrop Anywhere in the World and Watch Where It Ends Up ”, Learner 2025
- “Absolute Zero Is 0K ”
- “Microwaved, Hard-Boiled Eggs Can Explode. But the Bang Isn’t the Worst Part. ”
- “Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All ”
- “DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion ”
- “AI for Science ”
- “Quantum Mechanics ”, Hamming 2025
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“Tea Reviews ”, Gwern 2011
“The Impossibility of Knowledge of Retrocognitive Knowledge ”, Gwern 2023
“Electric vs Stove Kettle ”, Gwern 2015
“The Presocratic’s Logical Path to Atomism ”, Gwern 2010
Links
“AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. ”
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.
“He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse: OpenAI’s Chatbot Self-Reported It Blurred Line between Fantasy and Reality With Man on Autism Spectrum. ‘Stakes Are Higher’ for Vulnerable People, Firm Says ”, Jargon 2025
“You Can Use Any Phone With a Barometer to Make a Scale. All IPhones Since the 6… ”, cryptozo 2025
You can use any phone with a barometer to make a scale. All iPhones since the 6…
“Time Machine As Existential Risk ”, Turchin 2025
“How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? Studies of Neural Metabolism Reveal Our Brain’s Effort to Keep Us Alive and the Evolutionary Constraints That Sculpted Our Most Complex Organ ”, Feehly 2025
“The Metabolic Costs of Cognition ”, Jamadar et al 2025
“Neural Thermodynamic Laws for Large Language Model Training ”, Liu et al 2025
“Active Optical Intensity Interferometry ”, Liu et al 2025
“Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away: A High-Resolution Imaging System Captures Distant Objects by Shining Laser Light on Them and Detecting the Reflected Light ”, Schirber 2025
“Testing the Limit of Atmospheric Predictability With a Machine Learning Weather Model ”, Vonich & Hakim 2025
Testing the Limit of Atmospheric Predictability with a Machine Learning Weather Model
“LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets ”, Simonds 2025
LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets
“Experimental Demonstration of Electric Power Generation from Earth’s Rotation through Its Own Magnetic Field ”, Chyba et al 2025
“Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems: It’s Been Difficult to Find Important Questions That Quantum Computers Can Answer Faster Than Classical Machines, but a New Algorithm Appears to Do It for Some Critical Optimization Tasks ”, Ornes 2025
“‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability ”
“Intuitive Physics Understanding Emerges from Self-Supervised Pretraining on Natural Videos ”, Garrido et al 2025
Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining on natural videos
“Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body ”, Scherrer 2025
Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body
“Learned Magnetic Map Cues and Two Mechanisms of Magnetoreception in Turtles ”, Goforth et al 2025
Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles
“Do Generative Video Models Learn Physical Principles from Watching Videos? ”, Motamed et al 2025
Do generative video models learn physical principles from watching videos?
“Probabilistic Weather Forecasting With Machine Learning ”, Price et al 2024
“Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024—#73 § Culture of Science in China & AI Arms Races ”, Hsu 2024
Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024—#73 § culture of science in China & AI arms races
“How Far Is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective ”, Kang et al 2024
How Far is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective
“Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 2) ”
“Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry ”, Jordan et al 2024
“Statistical Patterns in the Equations of Physics and the Emergence of a Meta-Law of Nature ”, Constantin et al 2024
Statistical Patterns in the Equations of Physics and the Emergence of a Meta-Law of Nature
“Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whales [Terminal Velocity: 178.3 M/s] ”, Ferguson 2024
Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whales [terminal velocity: 178.3 m/s] :
“Aurora: A Foundation Model for the Earth System ”, Bodnar et al 2024
“Weather Forecasts Have Become Much More Accurate; We Now Need to Make Them Available to Everyone: A 4-Day Forecast Today Is As Accurate As a 1-Day Forecast 30 Years Ago ”, Ritchie 2024
View External Link:
“The Ultraviolet Myth ”, Bomark & Renstrøm 2024
“GenCast: Diffusion-Based Ensemble Forecasting for Medium-Range Weather ”, Price et al 2023
GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather
“The Virial Theorem and the Price Equation ”, Liorsdóttir & Pachter 2023
“Scaling Transformer Neural Networks for Skillful and Reliable Medium-Range Weather Forecasting ”, Nguyen et al 2023
Scaling transformer neural networks for skillful and reliable medium-range weather forecasting
“GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark ”, Rein et al 2023
“The Impact of Large Language Models on Scientific Discovery: a Preliminary Study Using GPT-4 ”, AI4Science & Quantum 2023
The Impact of Large Language Models on Scientific Discovery: a Preliminary Study using GPT-4
“Fair Coins Tend to Land on the Same Side They Started: Evidence from 350,757 Flips ”, Bartoš et al 2023
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 Flips
“How to Build a Computer Using Origami ”, Green 2023
“Flat Origami Is Turing Complete ”, Hull & Zakharevich 2023
“Connecting Spatial Thinking to STEM Learning through Visualizations ”, Taylor et al 2023
Connecting spatial thinking to STEM learning through visualizations :
View PDF:
“Foundations of Algorithmic Thermodynamics ”, Ebtekar & Hutter 2023
“Synthetic Lagrangian Turbulence by Generative Diffusion Models ”, Li et al 2023
Synthetic Lagrangian Turbulence by Generative Diffusion Models
“Advances in Apparent Conceptual Physics Reasoning in GPT-4 ”, West 2023
“Model Scale versus Domain Knowledge in Statistical Forecasting of Chaotic Systems ”, Gilpin 2023
Model scale versus domain knowledge in statistical forecasting of chaotic systems
“Six Experiments in Action Minimization ”, Greydanus 2023
Six Experiments in Action Minimization :
View External Link:
“Finding Paths of Least Action With Gradient Descent ”, Greydanus 2023
Finding Paths of Least Action with Gradient Descent :
View External Link:
“The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows] ”, Casati & Cavanagh 2023
“ClimaX: A Foundation Model for Weather and Climate ”, Nguyen et al 2023
“AI Insights into Theoretical Physics and the Swampland Program: A Journey Through the Cosmos With ChatGPT ”, Lehnert 2023
“GraphCast: Learning Skillful Medium-Range Global Weather Forecasting ”, Lam et al 2022
GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
“Black-Hole Radiation Decoding Is Quantum Cryptography ”, Brakerski 2022
“Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution Model for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast ”, Bi et al 2022
Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution Model for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast
“The Flow from Simulation to Reality ”, Zsolnai-Fehér 2022
“Machine Learning Helps Control Tokamak Plasmas ”, Georgescu 2022
“Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas through Deep Reinforcement Learning ”, Degrave et al 2022
Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning
“Clock: 解説 ”
“Quantum Advantage in Learning from Experiments ”, Huang et al 2021
“Behind the Scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the Role of Gravitation in Physics ”, Rickles 2021
Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the role of gravitation in physics
“Bayesian Inference of the Climbing Grade Scale ”, Drummond & Popinga 2021
“Advances in Neural Rendering ”, Tewari et al 2021
“Life in a Random Universe: Sciama’s Argument Reconsidered ”, Wang & Braunstein 2021
“Quantum-Enhanced Nonlinear Microscopy ”, Casacio et al 2021
“Structural Basis of Assembly and Torque Transmission of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor ”, Tan et al 2021
Structural basis of assembly and torque transmission of the bacterial flagellar motor
“Reality As a Vector in Hilbert Space ”, Carroll 2021
“The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes ”, Carroll 2021
The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes
“The Thermodynamics of Clocks ”, Milburn 2020
“Lights and Shadows ”, Ciechanowski 2020
“CERN Makes Bold Push to Build €21-Billion Supercollider: European Particle-Physics Lab Will Pursue a 100-Kilometre Machine to Uncover the Higgs Boson’s Secrets—But It Doesn’t yet Have the Funds ”, Castelvecchi & Gibney 2020
“GNS: Learning to Simulate Complex Physics With Graph Networks ”, Sanchez-Gonzalez et al 2020
GNS: Learning to Simulate Complex Physics with Graph Networks
“Portable Magnetometry for Detection of Biomagnetism in Ambient Environments ”, Limes et al 2020
Portable magnetometry for detection of biomagnetism in ambient environments
“Video-Guided Real-To-Virtual Parameter Transfer for Viscous Fluids ”, Takahashi & Lin 2019
Video-Guided Real-to-Virtual Parameter Transfer for Viscous Fluids
“Schrödinger’s Zombie: Adam Brown at the 6th FQXi Meeting ”, Musser 2019
“Universal Quantum Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning ”, Niu et al 2019
Universal quantum control through deep reinforcement learning
“Linking Plasma Formation in Grapes to Microwave Resonances of Aqueous Dimers ”, Khattak et al 2019
Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers
“The New Science of Seeing Around Corners: Computer Vision Researchers Have Uncovered a World of Visual Signals Hiding in Our Midst, including Subtle Motions That Betray What’s Being Said and Faint Images of What’s around a Corner ”, Fisker 2018
“Blueberry Earth ”, Sandberg 2018
“Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders ”, Morley & Robert 2018
“The Price of Gravity: Private Patronage and the Transformation of Gravitational Physics After World War II ”, Kaiser & Rickles 2018
“Increasing Arctic Sea Ice Albedo Using Localized Reversible Geoengineering ”, Field et al 2018
Increasing Arctic Sea Ice Albedo Using Localized Reversible Geoengineering
“Law without Law: from Observer States to Physics via Algorithmic Information Theory ”, Mueller 2017
Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory
“Sound Pressures Generated by Exploding Eggs ”, Nash & Blohn 2017
“Quark-Level Analogue of Nuclear Fusion With Doubly-Heavy Baryons ”, Karliner & Rosner 2017
Quark-level analogue of nuclear fusion with doubly-heavy baryons
“Accelerating Science With Generative Adversarial Networks: An Application to 3D Particle Showers in Multi-Layer Calorimeters ”, Paganini et al 2017
“Science Needs Reason to Be Trusted ”, Hossenfelder 2017
“Blind Analysis As a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology ”, MacCoun & Perlmutter 2017
Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology
“Laboratory Layered Latte ”
“What Does Any of This Have To Do With Physics? Einstein and Feynman Ushered Me into Grad School, Reality Ushered Me Out ”, Henderson 2016
“The Golden Age of Calcutta Physics: Difficulties in Reconstructing the History ”, Choudhuri 2016
The golden age of Calcutta physics: Difficulties in reconstructing the history
“Quantifying the Evolution of Individual Scientific Impact ”, Sinatra et al 2016
“Metaphysics of the Principle of Least Action ”, Terekhovich 2015
“Finite Time Blowup for an Averaged Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equation ”, Tao 2014
Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation
“Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers ”, Nemiroff & Wilson 2013
“Ballooning Spiders: The Case for Electrostatic Flight ”, Gorham 2013
“Osmosis Is Not Driven by Water Dilution ”, Kramer & Myers 2013
“Niels Bohr between Physics and Chemistry: Bohr’s Atomic Theory Was Addressed As Much to Chemical Problems As to Physical Ones. But the Great Scientist’s Intent to Establish a New Framework for Atomic and Molecular Chemistry Was Less Successful, and Was Unacknowledged by Most Chemists ”, Kragh 2013
“Wet Mammals Shake at Tuned Frequencies to Dry ”, Dickerson et al 2012
“On the Tumbling Toast Problem ”, Borghi 2012
“Thermodynamics As a Theory of Decision-Making With Information Processing Costs ”, Ortega & Braun 2012
Thermodynamics as a theory of decision-making with information processing costs
“Predicting the Outcome of Roulette ”, Small & Tse 2012
“The Thermodynamics of Prediction ”, Still et al 2012
“Ultrasonic Heating and Temperature Measurement in Microfluidic Channels ”, Yaralioglu 2011
Ultrasonic heating and temperature measurement in microfluidic channels
“A Bicycle Can Be Self-Stable Without Gyroscopic or Caster Effects ”, Kooijman et al 2011
A Bicycle Can Be Self-Stable Without Gyroscopic or Caster Effects
“The Snowflake Man of Vermont ”, Heidorn 2011
“Algorithmic Thermodynamics ”, Baez & Stay 2010
“The Quantum Mechanics of Time Travel through Post-Selected Teleportation ”, Lloyd et al 2010
The quantum mechanics of time travel through post-selected teleportation
“John Von Neumann and Klaus Fuchs: an Unlikely Collaboration ”, Bernstein 2010
“Spatial Coherence from Ducks ”, Knox et al 2010
Spatial coherence from ducks :
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“The Black Hole Case: The Injunction Against the End of the World ”, Johnson 2009
The Black Hole Case: The Injunction Against the End of the World
“A Formal Proof of the Born Rule from Decision-Theoretic Assumptions ”, Wallace 2009
A formal proof of the Born rule from decision-theoretic assumptions
“Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone ”, Baez & Stay 2009
“The Physical Principles of Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial Confinement Fusion, and the Quest for Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons ”, Gsponer & Hurni 2009
“Torsion Balance Experiments: A Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics ”, Adelberger et al 2009
Torsion balance experiments: A low-energy frontier of particle physics
“A Universe Without Weak Interactions ”, Harnik et al 2006
“Modeling Bursts and Heavy Tails in Human Dynamics ”, Vazquez et al 2005
“Patent Office Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein ”, Norvig 2005
“NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality ”, Aaronson 2005
“Blind Analysis In Nuclear And Particle Physics ”, Klein & Roodman 2005
“The Extraordinarily Beautiful Physical Principle of Thermonuclear Charge Design (On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Test of RDS-37—The First Soviet Two-Stage Thermonuclear Charge) ”, Goncharov 2005
“Comment on ‘Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (2002)]–Galileo and the Existence of Hell ”, Pesic 2002
“Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass ”, Kovar 2002
“Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws ”, Peterson 2002
“Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s ”, Ioffe 2002
Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s
“A Closer Look at Tumbling Toast ”, Bacon et al 2001
“Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire ”, Collins 2001
“Accurate and Efficient Simulation of Rigid-Body Rotations ”, Buss 2000
“The Underwater Sounds Produced by Impacting Snowflakes ”, Crum et al 1999
“Ultimate Physical Limits to Computation ”, Lloyd 1999
“Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions ”, Deutsch 1999
“SnowCrystals.com ”, Libbrecht 1999
“Story Of Your Life ”, Chiang 1999
“The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a Teenager Attempts to Build a Breeder Reactor ”, Silverstein 1998
The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor
“Feynman’s War: Modeling Weapons, Modeling Nature ”, Galison 1998
“Leading Scientists Still Reject God ”, Larson & Witham 1998
“Collective Dynamics of ‘Small-World’ Networks ”, Watts & Strogatz 1998
“Quantum Effects in Algorithms ”, Jozsa 1998
“"Interaction-Free" Imaging ”, White et al 1998
“P/NP, and the Quantum Field Computer ”, Freedman 1998
“Classical Computation Can Be Counterfactual 1996-09-02 V1.1 (Or Can Schrodinger’s Cat Collapse the Wavefunction?) ”, Bowden 1997
“Interaction-Free Measurements ”, Vaidman 1996
“Tumbling Toast, Murphy’s Law and the Fundamental Constants ”, Matthews 1995
“p-Adic Probability Interpretation of Bell’s Inequality ”, Khrennikov 1995
“Probability of a Tossed Coin Landing on Edge ”, Murray & Teare 1993
“(Para)bosons, (Para)fermions, Quons and Other Beasts in the Menagerie of Particle Statistics ”, Greenberg et al 1993
(Para)bosons, (para)fermions, quons and other beasts in the menagerie of particle statistics
“Force Concept Inventory ”
“Quantum Mechanics near Closed Timelike Lines ”, Deutsch 1991
“Time Travel and Computing ”, Moravec 1991
“Probability Theory As Logic ”, Jaynes 1990
“Clearing up Mysteries—The Original Goal ”, Jaynes 1989
“Physics in Budapest: A Survey ”, Radnai & Kunfalvi 1988
Physics in Budapest: A Survey :
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“Henry Adams, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Course of History ”, Burich 1987
Henry Adams, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Course of History
“Assessing Uncertainty in Physical Constants ”, Henrion & Fischhoff 1986
“Two Theories of Home Heat Control ”, Kempton 1986
“Practicing Western Science Outside the West: Personal Observations on the Indian Scene ”, Choudhuri 1985
Practicing Western Science Outside the West: Personal Observations on the Indian Scene
“Oliver Heaviside (1850–1927)—Physical Mathematician ”, Edge 1983
Law Without Law, Wheeler 1983
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“Conservative Logic ”, Fredkin & Toffoli 1982
“Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics ”, Hofstadter 1981 (page 21)
“Geometry from a Time Series ”, Packard et al 1980
“Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975): A Biographical Memoir ”, Alvarez 1980
Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975): A Biographical Memoir :
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“Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell ”, Astin 1979 (page 12)
Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell
“The Physics of a Push-Me Pull-You Boat ”, Blackford 1978
“Life at Low Reynolds Number ”, Purcell 1977
“Effects of World War II on Education in Science ”, Bowden 1975
“Biological Populations With Non-Overlapping Generations: Stable Points, Stable Cycles, and Chaos ”, May 1974
Biological Populations with Non-overlapping Generations: Stable Points, Stable Cycles, and Chaos
“Why Do Mirrors Reverse Right/Left but Not Up/Down? ”, Block 1974
“Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler To Einstein ”, Holton 1973
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler To Einstein :
“Will a Large Complex System Be Stable? ”, May 1972
Will a Large Complex System be Stable? :
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“Image Rotation Devices—A Comparative Survey ”, Swift 1972
“Physics and the Thales Problem ”, Feinberg 1966
Physics and the Thales Problem :
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“Death of a Project: Research Is Stopped on a System of Space Propulsion Which Broke All the Rules of the Political Game ”, Dyson 1965
“Kepler’s Conversation With Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger: First Complete Translation, With an Introduction and Notes ”, Kepler & Rosen 1965
Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom, Andrade 1964
“November 1963 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ”, Scientists 1963
“The Dematerialization of Matter ”, Hanson 1962
“Max Planck and the Beginnings of the Quantum Theory ”, Klein 1961
Max Planck and the beginnings of the quantum theory :
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“Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Crystals ”, McCall & Hamming 1959
“Geons ”, Wheeler 1955
“Turbidity Currents and Submarine Slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks [Newfoundland] Earthquake ”, Heezen & Ewing 1952
Turbidity currents and submarine slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks [Newfoundland] earthquake
“How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation ”, Miller 1951
How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation :
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“The Logic of Quantum Mechanics ”, Birkhoff & Neumann 1936
The Logic of Quantum Mechanics :
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“What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview ”, Viereck & Einstein 1929
What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview :
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“On Being The Right Size ”, Haldane 1927
“Possible Worlds and Other Essays ”, Haldane 1927
“The Effect of Size on the Equipment of the Queen’s Dolls’ House ”, O’Gorman 1924
The Effect of Size on the Equipment of the Queen’s Dolls’ House
“Ist Die Trägheit Eines Körpers Von Seinem Energieinhalt Abhängig? [Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon Its Energy-Content?] ”, Einstein 1905
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“No Physics? No Problem. AI Weather Forecasting Is Already Making Huge Strides. ”
No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.
“WeatherBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Data-Driven Weather Forecasting ”
WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting
“Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial ”
“Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) ”
Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
“The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student: John Bardeen, the Leading Condensed Matter Theorist of His Day, Was Quite Wrong When He Dismissed a Startling Prediction by the Unknown Brian Josephson ”, McDonald 2025
“Is There Suffering in Fundamental Physics? ”
“River Runner Global: Tap to Drop a Raindrop Anywhere in the World and Watch Where It Ends Up ”, Learner 2025
River Runner Global: Tap to drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
“Absolute Zero Is 0K ”
“Microwaved, Hard-Boiled Eggs Can Explode. But the Bang Isn’t the Worst Part. ”
Microwaved, hard-boiled eggs can explode. But the bang isn’t the worst part. :
“Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All ”
Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All
“DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion ”
“AI for Science ”
“Quantum Mechanics ”, Hamming 2025
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