Fedde Benedictus

@PhysInHistory Science cannot explain, it can only describe

What is the strongest opinion you hold about science? ✍️

@gerdadevriesfnp nee, spitigernôch net. Myn promoasje-boek hat wol in Fryske gearfetting: feddebenedictus.com/2017/06/08/phd…

@FBenedictus Ek yn it Frysk, Fedde?

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@worldscientific who is Fedde Benedictus? find out here: feddebenedictus.nl

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@NL_Wetenschap @PieterZijlstra2 @EU_phil_cosmo @UtrechtHPS klopt, op dit moment aan de VU: feddebenedictus.com/2024/11/24/gol…

@PieterZijlstra2 @EU_phil_cosmo @UtrechtHPS Ik geloof dat mijn collega Fedde Benedictus @FBenedictus dit doet. Ik heb wel eens een lezing gegeven voor een ISVW Summer School. Hopelijk snel weer.

Alle info op een rijtje: Filosofie v/d astronomie & kosmologie: uu.nl/UPAC en @EU_phil_cosmo Filosofie v/d natuurkunde: hpp-nl.nl en uu.nl/hpp Wetenschapsfilosofie en -geschiedenis: @UtrechtHPS en onze Master uu.nl/en/masters/his…

Read my #popularphysics book, which has a preface by #nobellaureate Gerard 't Hooft (#gerardthooft) #philosophyofphysics #physics #philosophy #einstein #relativity

@Metropixdesk Sorry for the late reply, probably useless now...of course you may use it

@FBenedictus Hi Fedde, may we use this image on metro.co.uk in the reporting of the incident? With credit. Many thanks

What's happening here? We were waiting to be allowed inside the chateau Versailles and now it's being evacuated...and the military just went in

Does anyone know when they're going to let people enter ?

@nos something is happening at #versailles chateau. We had to evacuate and the military went inside

@ANWB @ANWB maar zowel de scooter als ik reden op een fietspad (?)

@FBenedictus Hallo Fedde, wat heftig om te horen dat je zo bent gevallen. We hopen dat het nu wat beter met je gaat. Het is heel lastig om het met zekerheid te zeggen, maar het lijkt er wel op dat je hier voorrang hebt als je op het fietspad rijdt. We wensen je nog heel veel beterschap. 💛

@ANWB ik ging vrijdag over de kop met mijn elektrische rolstoel toen ik uitweek voor een scooter, en nu vraag ik me af of ik eigenlijk voorrang had. Ik rolde in Rotterdam vanaf een eenbaansfietspad een tweebaansfietspad op (google maps 51.92307841922233, 4.499222259199029)

Is there such a thing as randomness?😮 #randomness #philosophyofphysics #philosophyofmathematics

Today I went climbing, and while I was up there, it struck me: If the universe started with a big bang, is it so mysterious that there are long distance correlations (quantum entanglement)? Long ago these places were close together...

@StartsWithABang @conatus1632 where did he write this?

@conatus1632 No. Einstein said this, and I'm repeating it because I read Roy Kerr's paper. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you'll find out soon.

"General Relativity is about forces, not geometry." -A. Einstein

House of Benjamin Franklin, master of ⚡, inventor of the lightning rod

@worldscientific is going to publish my book on relativity (foreword Gerard 't Hooft) 😃 read the introduction here: feddebenedictus.com/2023/07/24/exp…

On this day in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), one of the most significant works in the history of science. The Principia*states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler had first obtained empirically).

Can string theory explain why particles sometimes behave as waves? if particles are actually tiny vibrating strings, then they will have a wave-like nature - does that explain quantum interference? #philosophyofphysics

Does quantum uncertainty imply that the world is indeterministic? #philosophyofphysics