About Aron Wall
I am a Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I read Great Books at St. John's College (Santa Fe), got my physics Ph.D. from U Maryland, and did my postdocs at UC Santa Barbara, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Stanford. The views expressed on this blog are my own, and should not be attributed to any of these fine institutions.
In my recent talk about fine tuning, I mentioned that the numerical value of a physical quantities with units (such as meters, joules, etc.) is just an arbitrary human convention. So if you don't understand the grammar of units, you … Continue reading →
Here are the slides for my recent talk at Ratio Christi, "Explanations for Fine Tuning": fine2.pdf Click on that link to find out about: Part I: The physics of constants and units Part II: How physicists diagnose fine-tuning Part III: … Continue reading →
Some of you may recall that last February I gave a talk on Science and the Resurrection to Ratio Christi, an apologetics club that meets at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Well, this Monday (the 26th) I'm giving a talk … Continue reading →
A reader kashyap asks: Aron, Excuse me for a completely off-topic question, but this is of current interest to me. I read in the paper that sainthood was bestowed upon Mother Theresa. One of the requirement is performance of two … Continue reading →
On my last post, a reader going by the name JPH comments: The resurrection is irrelevant. God appeared to a nation and gave them 613 commandments. He said they were eternal, everlasting, binding for all generations. There is NOT ONE … Continue reading →