← Topic Index
#
0.9999 repeating
“The equation is the following. We think about the number 0.9999 repeating, so the nines never stop. And the equation says that that number is in fact equal to one. It's the same as 1.000 forever.” (Joel David Hamkins)
Lectures on Infinity · Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums▶︎ watch 8:21 · read ↗︎
15-year-old self
“yourself over and over and over again. Think of who you were as a 15-year-old. The 15-year-old self could not have made the choices that you make today. The 15-year-old self had radically different…” (Lee Braver)
From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God · Recap: Making Your Beliefs Your Own▶︎ watch 9:58 · read ↗︎
17th and 18th century
“This is the branch of philosophy that has to do with truth and knowledge, uh, how we achieve it, what the nature of it is, and this was the branch that largely dominated philosophy in the 17th and…” (Lee Braver)
From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God · Intro: When the Old Map Stopped Working▶︎ watch 0:23 · read ↗︎
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
“Nobel Prizes coming up in this story. Oddly enough, it was these experiments that were awarded the Nobel Prize around two or three years ago. I forget exactly when. People ran out, did these…” (David Albert)
Quantum Mechanics and the Crisis of Scientific Realism · Lecture 4: Bell's Impossible Proof▶︎ watch 1:25:10 · read ↗︎