A few weeks ago I started to describe what holiness means, and someone requested that I go into more detail. One way to approach this is through the concept of the numinous, described in the classic work The Idea of … Continue reading
There’s been a huge kerfuffle in the quantum gravity community since this summer, when some people here at UCSB published a paper arguing that (old enough) black holes may actually be surrounded by a wall of fire which burns people … Continue reading
Science involves Precise Description. To be capable of being confirmed or ruled out at the high levels of reliability associated with Science, a hypothesis must be stated in a way which is precise enough to do definitive tests. Even if … Continue reading
Recently I ran across a pretty good explanation of the Higgs mechanism (hat tip Siris) by a certain Rob Knopp, which I thought I’d link to because of its connection with my previous post on fields. When I first looked … Continue reading
What is the world made out of? In the most usual formulations of our current best theories of physics, the answer is fields. What are those? Well, if you know what a function is, you’re already most of the way … Continue reading