פרסומים אחרונים במדור "חדשות"

Nobel Prize

In this respect, I have an advantage over you. I've always
been very, very skeptical about this business. Frankly, I still am. Though I can't say why, I'm far from convinced that they're right. In my bones, I feel that I need more evidence – lots
more.
BUT UNLIKE YOU, I DON'T RULE IT OUT COMPLETELY. Though utterly fantastic, it's just barely possible. I'm keeping anopen mind, and I'm going to play it by the rules. I really want to find out whether there is a phenomenon there or not. In contrast, you're already sure; you only want to find out HOW they cheated, not IF they cheated.

Who is Robert Aumann? Is he a communist or a mathematician?

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"A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question – such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, Can you read? – not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had."