... GeV.
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Exotic matter (and antimatter)
answer may be related to another puzzle: why is there an imbalance
between matter and antimatter in the universe?
Antimatter puzzle
Antimatter has an aura of mystery, ... energies, far
beyond what we can measure in the lab, and it appears that all
three become alike. The behaviour of atomic particles at very high
energies, akin to those that were abun...
... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast,
Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents
allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in
nutritional ... due
care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection
against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law
of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together,
a...
... Von
Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away.
Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim
to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that
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all ... in launching an angry attack
on Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour might
then easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail to
notice that he isn’t...
... the planet, sending up a
gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly
expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into
the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and
wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to
have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records
abound of flood, fire, qu...
... is an index of a speaker; writing of a hand employing a pen
or moving over a keyboard; traffic signs of both a fabricator and an
act of planning. What is particular, and peculiar, about photographs
is ... a distinction between actual and virtual
phenomena.) Assuming a good, flat mirror with a clean surface,
there are three factors that enable a beholder to determine that
what...
... is moral; offense is immoral.’ Ironically,
three and a half decades later, James M. Lindsay and Michael
E. O’Hanlon argued a national security policy that deliberately
leaves the American people ... Watkins concluded, to
have a long-range programme to ‘develop systems that would
defeat a missile attack’. Reagan gravitated to Watkins’s missile
defence idea as a way to alleviate...
... gods and beasts.
Yet Aristotelian man, as Alasdair MacIntyre has observed, is a
stranger to love.
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The assumption that the meaning of life is primarily an individual
affair is still alive and ... Nicomachean
Ethics, available in Penguin Classics in an edition by Jonathan Barnes
(Harmondsworth, 1976). Jonathan Barnes has also published a
useful introduction to Aristotle in the V...