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.
I am honored that St. Patrick Zimmerman has chosen to translate some of my blog posts into the German language. His translation website, now included in my sidebar, includes the following posts so far: Bei der Liebe Gottes! Ist die … Continue reading →
As Charles de Gaulle is reputed to have remarked when his aides told him he could not resign as president of France because he was the indispensable man: "Mon ami, the cemeteries are full of indispensable men." —Justice St. Antonin … Continue reading →
This Monday, I will be giving a talk on "Science and the Resurrection" at Rutgers University. In my talk, I will describe the basic principles of Science and compare them to Christianity to see how it measures up. Then there … Continue reading →
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 →