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Nabil Iqbal

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Mar 20 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X

@lqgist @ThomasVanRiet2 ah sorry. they definitely generalize, but i mean that they generalize in the manner that a typical human would (where typical means in some statistical sense from the literature). they dont generalize in a superhuman way. that's all.

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I can’t stop thinking, so I'm writing something.

This is about the physics students of Gaza. 1/N

For several years I co-organized a physics school in the West Bank of Palestine. We always had many applications to the school from physics students in Gaza, undergrads from the Islamic U. of Gaza and Al-Azhar U.

(Just checked my records — 15 in 2019). 2/N

No matter how early they applied, Israel never granted them travel permits, and students from Gaza could never attend the school in person. 3/N

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Nov 23, 2021

Here is an explanation of string theory, in the form of a parable about fish and water. 1/N.

Imagine a society of intelligent fish, where fish physicists try to learn about the water that surrounds them. (Except of course, in their language, the word for “water” is the same as the word for “space”, as it is all they have known to surround them). 2/N

After a great deal of effort, the fish derive the equations that describe the ebb and flow of water. *They* call them the Water Field Equations. They work very well indeed and are consistent with all of their fishy experiments. 3/N

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