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Hidden assumptions
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Hidden assumptions is a personal blog at robwilson1.wordpress.com about math and science. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a physics blog with speculative posts on dark energy and particle colliders. Commenters weigh its brash tone against points that hold up on a quick check of the cited paper.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mathematics: solving tomorrow's problems yesterday
What Hacker News says?
Ooh, a new one came out yesterday. https://robwilson1.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/zombie-physics/ The only crank-like part of this is the brashness, and a cursory inspection of the linked paper reveals nothing obviously incorrect. Indeed, it elaborates on several things I described as "prediction-free, reasoning-by-analogy" in my previous comment. When I have a couple of months spare to learn all the maths he's using,…
Comment linking /2024/04/07/zombie-physics/
on “Scientists may have discovered a flaw in their understanding of dark energy”Submitted What is physics? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAbsurd crackpot nonsense it may be, but it does have at least one point. > So, let’s begin by pointing out the obvious: the Large Hadron Collider is a Large Horizontal Collider. It is flat. Almost all other experiments are horizontal. I doubt a Large Vertical Collider, stretching 8% of the way to space, would find something different: the main purpose is to give the particles lots of energy. But, I mean, it might .…
Comment linking /2024/03/28/god-spins-coins/
on “Scientists may have discovered a flaw in their understanding of dark energy”Submitted The dark ages (Hidden Assumptions) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redefinition of the Unit of Weight as a story · 1 points
HN discussion