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've always thought there was something silly about the librarian festival "banned books week", and this post by St. Darwin explains why. The Game Crafter, a website for designing and selling your own board games. However, there's no need to … Continue reading →
So far in my explanation of General Relativity, I've discussed the metric , from which one can calculate the curvature tensor by way of the connection . In practical astrophysical contexts: The metric is related to the gravitational potential at … Continue reading →
St. Rollin Weeks writes: As an FMC member, I have attended two of your sessions. I am interested in the prospect of time "before" the Big Bang, Time and Eternity, God's foreknowledge and man's free will, the Arrow of Time … Continue reading →
Is it possible to be good without God? Well, it depends on what you mean... In what follows, I will identify 11 different possible meanings to the question. I have answered them with 5 Yeses and 6 Noes. Of the … Continue reading →
Last time, I ended with a question: what are the Jews famous for? The answer, of course, is Monotheism. The Jews are famous for either bringing into the world, or else preserving, the doctrine that there is just one God. … Continue reading →