More thinking about thinking. Data, measurement, what science is. Emergence: There is no economic collapse in a dollar bill, no hurricane in a rain drop, no love in a carbon atom. How far can we go to understand the emergence of qualitatively different properties as we move up through the scales of everything? The weirdness of taste. How science must eventually succeed with theory, simulations, experiments, and observations all coming together. Why cats lapping water is a paradigmatic example. The limits of our ability to model and understand reality with a classic piece from Radiolab, paired with a train ride in Norway. We run through a short overview of statistical mechanics and talk about toy model goodness highlighting the Ising model and percolation.

2020/10/03

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