Today is a “big post” which ties together some of my recent posting activity; we tackle consciousness, how that impacts our window on the universe and the fuzzy reality before us. These are by no means discrete topics; as I hope you will appreciate as the thoughts develop.
Mathematics is the unspoken language of nature, in which we must strive to achieve fluency if we are to bask in the richness of the universe in which we are marooned.
Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.
There may be more than one way to skin a cat; but why are we skinning cats at all?
Zeno’s paradoxes; a paradox much older than Christ which the ancients loved to muse on. Intuition and logic at odds; but how do you resolve this mystery? Snared in the logic trap.
Manifolds are a wonderful embodiment of how a mathematical construct can reveal so much about the world around us.
Muß es sein? At times I can understand why it made sense to just say that an amazing being beyond our comprehension made the world in seven days; there are some […]
My personal silence is broken; I must apologise for the low level of activity on my part I have been very busy finishing up the first year of my second […]
Carl Sagan once said “the cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be”. Statements like this deserve to be repeated; the kind of […]
Have you ever stopped and considered just quite how much of what you value isn’t real? Not in an abstract sense – just the simple sense of non-existence. Have a […]
The motivation for today’s post comes from some different articles I have read around inflationary cosmology, which has highlighted to me a common misconception when considering the basics of expansion. Expansion […]
Rationalising The Universe 