Month: May 2023

Two weeks ago, we left Phil Anderson mumbling about massless bosons, on his way back from Cambridge in the summer 1962. He would end up writing a short paper, about one year later, in which he added the word “plasmons”

When you step on a scales and look down at the number, what that number is telling you is how much force the mass of your body exerts on the ground. It is Newtonian mechanics saying just that force equals