A lesson from Martin Luther on walking in faith during pandemics. By Scott Church – Guest Blogger After decimating nearly one-third of Europe during the 14th Century, the Bubonic plague continued to ravage it in periodic epidemics before it was … Continue reading
[This is an updated version of an essay published at my own website in December 2014.—Scott Church] As Christmas draws nigh, I am reminded of the many reasons why it’s my favorite holiday. It’s the culmination of my favorite time … Continue reading
[Updated Dec. 28, 2017, with a revised and expanded discussion of arguments from Sean Carroll's book The Big Picture. - SC] There are many reasons why I’m not retired, but one of the bigger ones is that I haven’t figured … Continue reading
In the first installment of this series, we immersed ourselves in the quantum realm that lies beneath our everyday experience and discovered a universe that bears little resemblance to it. Instead of the solid, unambiguously well-behaved objects we’re familiar with, … Continue reading
In previous posts Aron introduced us to the strange, yet compelling world of quantum mechanics and its radical departures from our everyday experience. We saw that the classical world we grew up with, where matter is composed of solid particles … Continue reading
