What happens behind my back?
The idea of reality only existing when observed has been discussed heavily – but should the reality humans know be dependent on us logging it? We investigate what the world really looks like behind your back.
Category Archives: Physics
Conscious thought and fuzzy reality
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.
The Complex Stuff
Complexity is the study of the new phenomena which emerge from a collection of interacting objects. In this post we examine complexity in Physics where complex patters arise from relativity simple interactions.
Why skin a cat at all?
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?
Does the present really exist?
Special Relativity brought about a wide range of insights into the nature of reality including time dilation, a universal speed limit for light and the relativity of simultaneity. It is the latter and its implications that shall interest us today.
Topologically speaking
Manifolds are a wonderful embodiment of how a mathematical construct can reveal so much about the world around us.
A golden ratio
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 […]
The Horizon and Beyond
Today we move to the vast and wonderful field of cosmology. In cosmology a horizon is a dividing surface between regions that are in causal contact. If particles are in […]
Ghost Universes and Phantom Photons
The probability wavefunction; a creature whose characteristics propose the existence of simultaneously dead and alive cats, observational dependent existence, and other hard to swallow quantum truths, may have collapsed- indefinitely. […]
Pure breathtaking mathematical beauty
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 […]
Rationalising The Universe 