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vinaymm

vinaymm

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hello thanks for visiiting my profile..
i am physics undergraduate anyone interested in discussion in any topic of physics or any other science can send me request!!
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  • Christina M

    Christina M says

    Completely! I can't say I understood it 100% once we got the back of the book, but I did read it. In terms of what I thought of it, well, it messed with my thinking for years to come, probably permanently.

    I read it in college, and now whenever someone tries to defend a POV with the rules of logic, I think of Goedel and how Hofstadter stretched out his imcompleteness idea to encompass logic and language, and I realize my way of conceptualizing reality had been seriously bent by this book.

    To give you some idea, I have had a piece of paper posted in my office for at least 12 years and it says this: "All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecidable propositions." The concept that true statements can be undecidable is a very powerful idea.

    What did you think of it? DId you read "I am an infinite loop?"

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Alice in Madness

    Alice in Madness says

    Yes, I'm quite interested in philosophy. I haven't had much time to keep up with shelfari though at the moment, so I have a lot of updating to do in the way of books I've read/own! To answer your question though, I did not read GEB all the way through. I read about half of it before I got distracted with classes and such :) As much as I read of it I thought was extremely interesting though!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • AllanaS

    AllanaS says

    Yes, very similar. Crichton's spin was that time travel was possible at the quantum level "quantum foam makes me roam".
    He did a bit of a riff on his Jurassic Park with the idea that an archaeological dig in France was being funded by folks interested in doing a medieval theme park. At least, that's how I remember it.
    I recall the science fiction aspect being very fun the way his stuff usually was, and the time travel escapades were very entertaining action/adventure.

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  • AllanaS

    AllanaS says

    I'm reading a lot of fiction at the moment for a Reading challenge. At the moment I'm about half way done with The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Which is about historians who travel to other times to see history first hand. So there's the historian, and she's in 1320, and it's also following a quarantine in Oxford from the outbreak of a new strain of influenza. It's really good. I just picked up Willis' latest because I saw it's another book based in the same "time traveling historians" universe.

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  • AllanaS

    AllanaS says

    Ah, sorry! I didn't realize I hadn't.
    Trouble with Physics is/was on my to be read list but I read a review that said that the author took too much time bad mouthing his colleagues and pseudo-philosophizing. I figured I'd stay away from it because I don't know nearly enough about physics. I'd end up soaking up his opinions without any facts to temper them. And no, I'm not a student anymore.

    Anyway, I quite enjoyed The Hitchhiker's Guide. The first book is the best. Though I quite liked the rest as well. It's absurdist, but clever. Sort of very British humor-wise, like Monty Python.

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  • kushal ramakrishna

    kushal ramakrishna says

    Same case..Physics at a higher level..

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  • Christina M

    Christina M says

    How was "Billions & Billions"?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Sara S

    Sara S says

    Hi, again....have you read Robert Laughlin's book A Different Universe:Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. ? I have decided to read it again...some interesting ideas on science.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • nandana

    nandana says

    I totally loved Phantoms in the brain - it was very accessible and interesting. The Blank Slate was interesting - it kind of questioned the way I made judgments or assumptions.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Sara S

    Sara S says

    Hi...I see you like Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov also...but who doesn't? ;-)...have you read Asimov's robot and foundation series? Classics in the field; also Dan Brown has some earlier books with science-fiction themes you might like. I am not a physicist, but do like readings in that area...just have a lot of interest in the sciences.

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  • AllanaS

    AllanaS says

    Thanks for friending. I need to read more Carl Sagan, myself. :)

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • archana

    archana says

    Thanks. I like fiction. what abt u

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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