A Christian reader named Paul wrotes to me from New Zealand with the following common question. With permission, I am posting his question and my answer on my blog. St. Paul writes: A few months ago I discovered your blog … Continue reading
A friend of mine from St. John's College, who was recently accepted to a physics doctoral program at Penn State, asked me what my opinion of Loop Quantum Gravity is. I replied be email, and then I decided, why not … Continue reading
I've been staying home sick with some horrible cough for about 3 weeks now. One would think that this would be quite conducive to blogging, but when I'm running a fever I find it hard to concentrate enough to produce … Continue reading
There's a common notion floating around, due to Karl Popper, that scientific theories are characterized by the fact that they are falsifiable. The idea is that it is never possible to verify a scientific theory (i.e. the sun always comes … Continue reading
This is just a quick note to say I've been travelling a lot recently (to Japan to visit the IPMU and to Seattle for Christmas) and have also been very busy with job application stuff. I've accepted an exciting new postdoc … Continue reading
