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.
I. The Setup On my post Black Swans, I received the following question from St. "naclhv", who is also a physicist... and a Christian... and a blogger who has discussed Bayesian arguments that the Resurrection of Jesus is highly probable! … Continue reading →
♦ My wife has a new blog about quilting. ♦ This Nature article describes the subfield of quantum gravity which I've been working in—I know most of these people. This is a lot more accurate of a description than your … Continue reading →
Introductory Warning: please note that when theologians call God "simple" that's a technical term. It doesn't mean he is easy to understand. It means that he is not composed of any parts of any kind. (Depending on who you talk … Continue reading →
I'm in the middle of a six week trip in Europe; currently I'm attending the Amsterdam String Workshop. I'm reminded of something that happened to me a year-and-a-half ago December when I visited the String Theory group in Amsterdam. I … Continue reading →
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A reader asks: This seems to be as good a place as any to ask a question about closed universes. See, in a lot of popular science books, they teach you that an "open" universe is one where space is … Continue reading →