Gordon's Notes

I’m reading Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe . It’s the layperson version of a 2007 paper  (downloadable) I explore physics implication...

Like most people, my neurons were rebooted a few times between birth and adulthood . So I don’t remember that much about childhood, but I do...

Newt Gingrich has written many Amazon book reviews . One of them was on a physics book I'd read, maybe Greene's The Fabric of the Co...

I barely got my head around the inflationary universe, and it's already passe. Sean Carroll starts us off with his debut article in Dis...

Amidst a flurry of sensational coverage, the BBC gets special credit for the headline and the quote (emphases mine) ... BBC News - Speed-o...

My favorite part of Sean Carroll's posts on the nature of Time was about emergence vs. fundamental time ... Time exists...The real qu...

I can't find the post I was looking for. It was written by a physicist I read. i'm still looking for it, but there were two interes...

The "Foundational Questions Institute" (FQXi, don't ask about the acronym) recently sponsored an essay question about the natu...

I used to teach Bayesian reasoning to informatics students. I couldn't justify to them why such simple math felt both spooky and profoun...

I'm behind the curve on metamaterials (emphasis mine) ... Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How to Build a Warp Drive Using Metamat...

Every physics hobbyist should be familiar with the names of Smolin, Gribbin and Greene. All are literate physicists who've written excel...

In this popular account from 1860 [1]) the observation that "electricity" traveled through a medium implied that "other"...

There's an antidote to reading about the Cheney torture program and the GOP's insurance-company funded attack on health insurance re...

I've been composing a post about Greg Egan's Permutation City for a while. I'm afraid I'll never get to the whole thing, so...

Useful at parties ... Relativity as a Consequence of Quantum Entanglement: A Quantum Logic Gate Space Model for the Universe Everything in t...

Are you an amateur epistemontologist? Curious about the nature of reality? Not willing to accept the illusions of the senses? Then you'...

It's time for your morning exercise ... FQXi Community: Articles, Forums, Blogs, News .... The arrow of time finds a plausible explanati...

I've grown somewhat accustomed to the idea that our universe is far weirder than my brain can comprehend. Even so, this "dark flow&...

This Aaronson lecture is surprisingly readable. Thank you scribe! PHYS771 Lecture 20: Cosmology and Complexity ...But that's only one th...

I really need to study, so I'm noting these for future reading. These are a set of Aaronson posts, found by tracing back from the latest...