John Baez

“While we saw immense progress toward discovering the basic laws governing matter, space, and time, this has slowed to a crawl since 1980, despite an immense amount of work.”

2023-05-31

“So to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels by 2100, it's becoming more and more likely that we'll need negative carbon emissions: That is, we'll need to fix the air. We'll need to suck…”

2020-01-12

“Thus, while we can dream about energy-intensive methods of fixing the air, they will only come into their own-if ever-later in the century.”

2020-01-12

“Control System Design by Bernard Friedland. Control theory rocks! I've been meaning to learn it for years. The math is easy, but the idea of setting up feedback loops to stabilize systems is cool, and the techniques to…”

2013-07-25, book, by Bernard Friedland, loved

“The Higher Infinite by Akihiro Kanimori. This book is about the whoppingly big infinities that logicians invent. I used to dislike this stuff, because it seemed useless. Now it's just a hobby for me, to stretch my mind.”

2013-07-25, book, by Akihiro Kanamori, loved

“Principles of Planetary Climate by Ray Pierrehumbert. This is one I'd like to read, which I've bought, but haven't gotten far into. It tackles climate physics, not just on Earth but other planets.”

2013-07-25, book, by Ray Pierrehumbert, read