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Showing posts with label Polanyi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polanyi. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

What does learning to ride a bicycle teach us?

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How do you learn to ride a bicycle? How do you teach someone to ride a bicycle? It is not easy to put this into words and that is an importa...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Topological defects determine the strength and growth rate of crystals

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 The quantum theory of solids developed in the 1920s provided a theoretical estimate of the ideal strength of crystals. The problem was that...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Public talk on emergence

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Every year in Australia there is a week of science outreach events in pubs, Pint of Science . I am giving a  talk  tomorrow night,  Emergenc...
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Monday, November 28, 2016

Polanyi and Emergence before "More is Different"

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The common narrative in physics is that the limitations of reductionism, the importance of emergence, and the stratification of scientific f...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Simple valence bond model for a chemical reaction

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Valence bond theory provides an intuitive picture of not just chemical bonding but bond breaking and making. For a reaction ab + c -> ac ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

One of my scientific heroes: John R. Platt (1918-1992)

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John R. Platt has featured on this blog before because of his paper in Science about "Strong Inference" and the "method of mu...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Emergence in molecular biology

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A key framework for molecular biophysics is that structure determines property which in turn determines function . But `function’ is not a r...