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The Shroud of Turin may show evidence of Christ's injuries
I was at a birthday party the other day for one of my daughter’s friends. Since we are at a seminary, everyone is either a priest, a theologian, or a…
Mar 29
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Time doesn't stop for a beam of light. It ceases to exist.
What would it be like to catch up to a beam of light? That was the question that the 16 year old Einstein asked himself. Ten years later, he would…
Mar 18
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February 2024
The Moon is not the best place for a giant particle accelerator
The current plans for the Future Circular Collider are for it to be about 90 km in circumference, over 3 times longer than the current world champion…
Feb 23
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This twenty year old theory of quantum gravity is gaining popularity
Most people know we don’t have a working theory of quantum gravity, but it is often hard to explain why. The simplest explanation is that we don’t know…
Feb 19
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How to argue with yourself and win
The process of discovery has a mystical status in our culture. Ideas appear to come from nowhere. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla both had inventive…
Feb 9
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Does the universe work like a TARDIS?
I recently came across this problem on X/Twitter. I’m not sure where it came from originally. This one was posted by the prolific Cliff Pickover without…
Feb 2
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January 2024
The Trisolaran system of the Three-Body Problem could never evolve life
I have been reading the Three-Body Problem trilogy by Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu which is soon to become a Netflix series. I want to talk…
Jan 26
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Life may not have started in a primordial soup but a hive
Creation stories are common in mythology. African Bushmen believed that people and animals started out living underground in an Eden-like state of peace…
Jan 19
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GPT is getting better at doing physics but has a long way to go.
I’ve been playing around with GPT-4, which is free with Microsoft Copilot, to see if it could help me with my research. A dirty little secret is that…
Jan 12
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The conscious experience of time may involve a 5th dimension
Time and consciousness are two phenomena that are integral to our experience of existence but neither is well understood. Our subjective experience is…
Jan 4
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December 2023
Electrons are real but magnetic fields might not be
Or maybe the other way around?
Dec 15, 2023
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Are black holes real?
Or are they holograms?
Dec 3, 2023
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