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.
One of the things I've been trying to do on this blog is to explain Einstein's theories of relativity. Here are my previous posts on this subject: Time as the Fourth Dimension? The Ten Symmetries of Spacetime Fields Geometry is … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, I know it's been more than two weeks since I made any new top-level articles, but I hope to resume doing it soon. This was because: i) I got very involved arguing with people on the comment sections … Continue reading →
After the discussion in the last post about the authorship of the Gospels, I've created a spreadsheet model, in Open Office format, to illustrate the probability calculus for whether the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This … Continue reading →
A common criticism of the Gospel accounts is that they are of low historical value because they are anonymous. This is based on the observation that the authorship is never explicitly mentioned in the main body of the texts of … Continue reading →
A lot of people think that the New Testament documents must be unreliable because (like all published texts from the ancient world) they are based on translations of copies of copies. So how can we know whether the original version … Continue reading →