Bright lights, big city: a lighting revolution comes to New York
Adaptive fritting, emergent surfaces and much more from the future of lighting
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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. He has written, translated or edited more than a dozen books on the history and philosophy of science and technology, and is the author of the Physics World Discovery ebook Philosophy of Physics and the IOP ebook Philosophy of Physics: a New Introduction. He is past chair of the Forum for History of Physics of the American Physical Society. He is co-editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective, and since 2000 he has written a column, Critical Point, on the historical, social and philosophical dimensions of science for Physics World. His latest book (with Peter D Bond) is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2022 MIT Press).
Adaptive fritting, emergent surfaces and much more from the future of lighting
Robert P Crease examines why Goethe so savagely attacked Newton's views on optics
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Constellations has fun with the "many worlds" idea, but Robert P Crease isn't wholly convinced
Read article: A multiverse play divides opinion
Robert P Crease drops in on an exhibition exploring how quantum physics inspires graphic artists
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Robert P Crease on the meaning of ceremonies we hold for labs that are closing down
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Robert P Crease wants your picks for the best fiction books set in physics labs
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Robert P Crease marks the centenary of the birth of Martin Gardner
Read article: Celebrating the mind
The power of the quantum drew me to Brooklyn
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