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Anna B.

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  • My best-case scenario for what's going on now is—assuming that within the next half year, we do deal successfully with the COVID crisis—that it will become a model for people all around the world recognizing common problems, rallying together to deal with [them]. My best-case scenario is that, having defeated COVID, we will go on to attempt to defeat and succeed in defeating climate change...Worst-case scenario is that countries try to deal one by one. There's already talk of a race to produce vaccines, where a country that has the vaccine will use the vaccine for itself in order to gain advan…
    Welcome to the 21st Century: How To Plan For The Post-Covid Future
  • It is not the problem of finding new fundamental particles, but something left over from a long time ago—over a hundred years. Nobody in physics has really been able to analyze it mathematically satisfactorily in spite of its importance to the sister sciences. It is the analysis of circulating or turbulent fluids.
    The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Ch. 3: The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences