Angela Collier and Gabriele Carcassi on Physics Textbooks

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Griffith's exercises are interesting. Her summary was definitely vastly more insightful than the AI one.

Gabriele Carcassi on what an introduction to quantum mechanics could look like: it would start by pointing out that classical statistical mechanics is incompatible with the Third Law of Thermodynamics, ... They have a paper published yesterday on this: see  Gabriele Carcassi, Manuele Landini and Christine A Aidala, Classical mechanics as the high-entropy limit of quantum mechanics Phys. Scr. 101 065105.

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See also Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens and Vitaly Vanchurin on Thermodynamics of Machine Learning.

Last night I listened to Janet talking about time and Quantum Mechanics. What she said was really interesting: that superposition states might only be superposition states because the time-keeping machinery is independent of the observer's time.  See Gabriele Carcassi on Why Statistical Mechanics is Fundamental in Physics.


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