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, 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 →
I guess a suitably random place to start is here: ♦ Programming for kids. ♦ Speaking of children and languages, here's an article about St. Tolkien's history of inventing languages, found on a website devoted to describing all of the … Continue reading →
Dear Aron, I hope and pray you are doing fine. I will try to keep my comments short (perhaps more will come later, for what they are worth). In 2 Chronicles 4:5 of the KJV (King James Version), one will … Continue reading →