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.
...and so, the Judge sentenced the murderer to go to the electric chair. But just then, the Judge's only Son piped up. "Please punish me instead! That way, he won't have to die." Out of his compassion for the criminal, … Continue reading →
This finished a bit too late to get into the previous collection of Random Stuff, so it gets to be its own post. A long but fascinating saga by St. Michael Flynn on the topic of what actually went down … Continue reading →
I've always thought there was something silly about the librarian festival "banned books week", and this post by St. Darwin explains why. The Game Crafter, a website for designing and selling your own board games. However, there's no need to … Continue reading →
So far in my explanation of General Relativity, I've discussed the metric , from which one can calculate the curvature tensor by way of the connection . In practical astrophysical contexts: The metric is related to the gravitational potential at … Continue reading →
St. Rollin Weeks writes: As an FMC member, I have attended two of your sessions. I am interested in the prospect of time "before" the Big Bang, Time and Eternity, God's foreknowledge and man's free will, the Arrow of Time … Continue reading →