That’s Not Physics

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    Opinion: That’s Not Physics
    Where do the boundaries of physics begin and end? The debate has persisted for more than a century.
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    I think it is telling that the above article is written from the point of view of employability within academia, and not in terms of all the damage done to scientific knowledge because of issues arising from topic demarcation.

    "The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making" - Douglas Adams

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    I found this interesting since I majored in Engineering Physics, which blurs the boundary. And I have applied it in multiple industries, including biotech. I don't think there is much damage from "demarcation". There are plenty of hybrid studies like biophysics, geophysics (which I loved my coursework in), astrophysics, etc.

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    I don't think there is much damage from "demarcation".

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    RE: ICCF-25 - Presentation Videos (almost all).
    I would recommend watching the password protected Vimeo version. The slides are fully legible on that one (and the sound is better).

    I think this is a good example of treating these reactions as a "fourth quadrant problem".

    By that, I am obliquely referring to the (by now) familiar idea often referred to as "black swan theory" - in which problems are assumed to fall into three categories. These are often labelled as problems with "known knowns", "known unknowns", and "unknown unknowns" - the…
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