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Culture, history and society

What do holidays mean to physicists in the 21st century?

10 Aug 2021 Robert P Crease
Taken from the August 2021 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "21st-century holidays".

Do you use vacations to unwind from physics or to focus on it without distraction? Robert P Crease wonders what holidays mean to physicists in the 21st century

Woman using a laptop at the beach
Labour or leisure? Do you switch off from physics on your holidays – or use the time to get stuff done? (Courtesy: iStock/grinvalds)
I once went to a New Year’s Eve party when I heard a graduate physics student apologize for leavin

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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