Philosophia Naturalis #

Technical mishaps delayed the publication of the latest edition of the physical sciences blog carnival over at {metadata}; technical problems have also delayed my plugging of it (my internet connection is currently flickering on and off like a faulty streetlamp). Nonetheless, despite his rather bizarre notion that geophysics is “a field of inquiry that some would consider unconventional’, Sujit has an interesting collection of links for your perusal, my personal favorite being a debate about whether the brain is a quantum computer. Entertaining, even if you’d think if that were the case we wouldn’t have so much trouble understanding, or even believing, quantum physics.