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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]