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.
So I'd like to get kicking soon on the project of actually presenting the positive evidence for Christianity. In my view the best evidence is the historical testimony of the apostles to Jesus' Resurrection (along with other ancient and modern … Continue reading →
Today I'd like to talk about Bayes' Theorem, especially since it's come up in the comments section several times. It's named after St. Thomas Bayes (rhymes with "phase"). It can be used as a general framework for evaluating the probability … Continue reading →
I've told you so far that the gravitational field is encoded in a matrix known as the metric. Here it is, displayed as a nice table: There's 10 components because the matrix is symmetric when reflected diagonally. The 4 diagonal … Continue reading →
In my Pillars of Science series, I enumerated six aspects of Science that help explain why it works so well. It should be clear from my analysis that the characteristics of Science are quite flexible. All of the criteria are … Continue reading →
I've now completed my Pillars of Science series. My goal was to analyze why Science is such an amazingly effective method for discovering new truths about the world. Here are the 6 "Pillars" I identified. Of course, Science is a … Continue reading →