Gene Tracy
Chancellor Professor of Physics, William & Mary
Gene Tracy is Chancellor Professor of Physics at William & Mary in Virginia. He blogs about science and culture at The Icarus Question.
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Computing and artificial intelligence
How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember?
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History of science
Behold: science as seeing
One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected?
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Physics
A science without time
From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics?
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History of ideas
Sky readers
For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up?
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