Gordon's Notes

Years ago I used to teach Bayes theorem to informatics grad students. I was reassigned to other lectures though. Truth is, I had a hard ti...

CV provides the recipe for our universe from the most recent analysis of the echoes of the big bang: WMAP 5-Year Results Released | Cosmic V...

This December post by CV has been in my queue for a while. He starts out complaining about the popular depiction of Dark Energy as a "f...

The New York Times that is. In a reprise of John Tierney's NYT interview with Nick (we're in a simulation) Bostrum   Dennis Overbye...

Why are mathematical models so insanely good at making predictions about the physical universe? Is this a testament to the general modeling...

Sean "Cosmic Varience" Carroll has indexed his personal favorite posts . A true feast for the physics fan.

It's good to stretch one's mind on the way in to the office. It makes modeling relationships between arcane procedural descriptions ...

Promotion has sapped the output of my favorite physics bloggers, so I'm grateful to FMH for my physics fix: Shadow World: Science News ...

After a series of posts with only a marginal connection to physics, CV has returned with a nice discussion of the Higgs particle: Higgs 101 ...

Even In Our Time has its limits. I wrote last April that Lord Bragg was struggling with the Poincare Conjecture, and compared it to my phy...

I'm almost caught up with modern physics, but it's taken a toll. It's started my reading a few months ago when I realized I'...

I read a few physics blogs, and lately I think I'm seeing a bit of irritability. CV (Sean)'s post today hints at the trend ... Ask a...

Things were odd enough when we seemed to live peculiarly close the mid-life of the universe. But now it seems we live infinitesimally close ...

A delightful post for amateur physics junkies: Constraints and Signatures in Particle Cosmology | Cosmic Variance . CV reviews the constrain...

I've been reading Sean Carroll's posts on Cosmic Variance , not realizing until now that he's a research associate at my alma ma...

I came across this older article via a blog comment. Shame that this article doesn't have a date on it (a common web page error), but I ...

If you were to enter the black hole at the center of our galaxy ... 'you easily pass into it without disruption and find it had the dens...

For the photon, there is neither time nor distance. Every destination takes no time at all to reach, which is, of course, also true of non-l...

I'd blogged earlier on a Cosmic Variance article about emergent brains in the eternal soup of a senescent universe , but I didn't kn...

CV talks about manufacturing universes that vanish as an evaporating black hole.... How Did the Universe Start? | Cosmic Variance ... The ba...