The Infinite Universe

Time may emerge from quantum entanglement with clocks

There is a fairly large group of physicists who believe that time is a statistical phenomenon like temperature and pressure.

Sep 16 • 

Tim Andersen

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What can destroy a black hole?

Black holes are the densest and most powerful objects known to our species.

Sep 3 • 

Tim Andersen

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August 2025

The dominant model of cosmology may be falling apart

Challenges to the ΛCDM can no longer be ignored

Aug 27 • 

Tim Andersen

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Feynman may have been wrong about Brownian ratchets

A Brownian ratchet is any device that can harvest energy from Brownian motion, that is, random thermal motion such as the motion of air particles in a…

Aug 18 • 

Tim Andersen

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July 2025

What does evil weigh?

The question in the title may seem nonsensical, like what is the melting point of the number three?

Jul 29 • 

Tim Andersen

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How the West overtook China in science and technology and what that means today

If you ask when science began, you will get different answers.

Jul 24 • 

Tim Andersen

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Peter Putnam, the Wittgenstein of Physics, and his long lost commentary on the Many Worlds Interpretation

I have for a long time been searching for applications of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, particularly later Wittgenstein, to physics.

Jul 14 • 

Tim Andersen

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June 2025

Philosophy changed my life

Why you need more than physics to understand the universe

Jun 20 • 

Tim Andersen

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We need a superspace Bohmian mechanics

David Bohm (1917-1992) was a brilliant figure in mid-20th-century physics.

Jun 7 • 

Tim Andersen

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May 2025

The simulation hypothesis may have been disproved

The trumpets have sounded, the simulation hypothesis, the idea that we are all living in a simulation of our universe created by our distant descendants…

May 23 • 

Tim Andersen

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Can you be Buddhist and Christian at the same time?

The supernatural underpinnings of Buddhism, which it cannot do without, make it incompatible with Christianity

May 20 • 

Tim Andersen

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The language of Eden may have been mathematics

In the book of Genesis 1, God “speaks” the universe into existence.

May 15 • 

Tim Andersen

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