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.
Warsaw (where I was when I wrote this post) is supposed to have had a basilisk: Also a friendly mermaid who is supposed to protect the city (although our guidebook cynically suggests that she hasn't been seen when needed most): … Continue reading →
Posted in History, Links
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A cynical, but probably accurate take on the double standard for government officials committing perjury. One of the problems with the US federal government is that it seems almost impossible to bring people to any kind of accountability to lower federal … Continue reading →
Posted in Links, Politics
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St. Brandon writes about problems in philosophy, but a lot of what he says seems applicable to physics as well. In my field of quantum gravity, there's no experimental evidence so a lot of the back-and-forth has to do with … Continue reading →
BioLogos has kindly published the first part of a 2-part series about thermodynamics and black holes. The links are here: One Way Streets: Black Holes and Irreversible Processes, Part 1 One Way Streets: Black Holes and Irreversible Processes, Part 2 … Continue reading →
Posted in Links, Physics
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I'm in the first week of a 5 week trip to Europe. I'm in England and will be visiting France, England again, Germany, and Poland (where I'll be attending the GR20 conference in Warsaw). Expect posting to be light to … Continue reading →