About Aron Wall
I am a Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I read Great Books at St. John's College (Santa Fe), got my physics Ph.D. from U Maryland, and did my postdocs at UC Santa Barbara, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Stanford. The views expressed on this blog are my own, and should not be attributed to any of these fine institutions.
A reader asks: After a lot of reading, I've come to realize that the Bayes factor for the resurrection is quite high that if the event in question wasn't a supernatural occurrence, no rational person would think that the event … Continue reading →
Strictly speaking, most of the other rules about QM are already implicit in what I've already said. But a few implications of this setup are worth pointing out. First note that, in QM, the "state" includes information about every single … Continue reading →
A reader, Martin B, asked me a question in response to my review of Krauss' talk on “A Universe from Nothing”. I had written: "Atheists such as Krauss scorn theology as being completely non-empirical. They claim it is not based … Continue reading →
A bunch of people have been asking me about the interpretation of QM. Now, every interpretation of QM predicts (or claims to predict) the same experimental results in any experiment (or at least, any realistically feasible experiment). Otherwise they wouldn't … Continue reading →
The Stoic philosophers are known for insisting that the Passions be ruled by Reason, and that one should avoid fretting over anything one can't control. What is less well known is that they believed in Ethical Monotheism, or something close … Continue reading →