Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West
Geoffrey Brian Westis a British theoretical physicist, former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. Among other things his work states that with the doubling of a city's size, services per capita will generally increase by 15%...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhysicist
science taking
Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.
branch cent history length life mammal ninth offspring per physiology pulse rate size
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
spent string theory
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
amazing govern
I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.
hard
It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.