As 2024 comes to a wrap, I thought I'd share one of my favorite non-fiction books this year for whomever looking for a good read for the Holiday Season. 🧵 - ThreadSky

qi2peng2.bsky.social • 72 days ago

As 2024 comes to a wrap, I thought I'd share one of my favorite non-fiction books this year for whomever looking for a good read for the Holiday Season.

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qi2peng2.bsky.social•72 days ago

Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder's 𝙀𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨: 𝘼 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩'𝙨 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚'𝙨 𝘽𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 is a very approachable popular science book talking about some of the questions at the heart of philosophy since the dawn of philosophy,

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qi2peng2.bsky.social•72 days ago

and explaining what "science" is and does in the meantime. I'd strongly recommend it as a good brush-up for practicing scientists, or those around you that might be curious about either the philosophical side of it or the scientific side.

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qi2peng2.bsky.social•72 days ago

This book really resonates with me, and explains a lot of the concepts I feel the urge to yell out when I see pseudo-science and exaggerated science reporting in mainstream media -- only Dr. Hossenfelder did it a lot more eloquently already.

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qi2peng2.bsky.social•72 days ago

One topic that strongly resonated with me is how Dr. Hossenfelder makes the clear distinction between "scientific" and "ascientific". A lot of theories that are, by definition (of science), ascientific, so one would be correct to claim that

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qi2peng2.bsky.social•72 days ago

"science won't be able to explain everything and answer every question", but just often not in the way that people constantly claim this might think. Also, it helps offer a clear debunk of some of the very ascientific claims that another prominent physicist made in one of their books,

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qi2peng2.bsky.social•72 days ago

who was making extrapolations from known scientific models and claiming such categorically unobservable extrapolations must be reality.

Hope you'd like it, and Happy Holidays!

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