Gordon's Notes

When did physicists first begin to suspect that what we experience as time emerges from quantum entanglement, much as we experience heat fro...

In a most excellent overview of the Higgs(es?) news, The Economist manages the best concise summary of the Standard Model that I've read...

I'm looking forward to the discussions on this paper by Pusey et al ... Quantum theorem shakes foundations : Nature News & Comment ...

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...

Living in a Quantum World: Scientific American by Vlatko Vedral is the headline article for SciAm's June 2010 issue. It's behind Sc...

Towards the end of my comments on a  BBC news article titled "quantum physics explanation for smell", I started to have second tho...

Smell, aka the application of algorithms for molecule classification, uses "quantum" effects ... BBC News - Quantum physics expla...

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

SciAm is republishing a terrific 1963 essay by a famed physicist, back when Scientific American graphics included serious math. Here Dirac i...

In Greg Egan's Teranesia [1]  one story I can't currently locate (h/t Mel Anderson, comments), the protagonist is fighting the ul...

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

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'...

Lovecraft was wrong. Madness is not to be taught at Nyarlathotep Academy , it to found in the contemplation of the quantum ... Quantum physi...

Almost exactly two years ago a Wired magazine article inspired me to catch up on the past 15 years of popular physics . I've had a great...

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

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