Jim Baggott
Science Writer, Cape Town, South Africa
Jim Baggott is an award-winning popular science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics – A Game of Theories (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is currently collaborating with the science historian John Heilbron on Quantum Drama: Bohr, Einstein, and the Purpose of Science, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
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History of science
Calculate but don’t shut up
The cliché has it that the Copenhagen interpretation demands adherence without deep enquiry. That does physics a disservice
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Philosophy of science
How science fails
For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive
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Philosophy of science
But is it science?
Theoretical physicists who say the multiverse exists set a dangerous precedent: science based on zero empirical evidence
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History of science
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’
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