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.
Today is Thanksgiving Day (in the United States), a day set aside for us all to remember the things in life we are grateful for. Fortunately, Nicole and I started the process of gratitude earlier this week when we finished … Continue reading →
Scientists must have Integrity. Because Science involves an ethical principle, the love of truth, its practice cannot be unmoored from principles of morality. A hypothesis can only be put to a fair test by a person who prefers knowing the … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago I started to describe what holiness means, and someone requested that I go into more detail. One way to approach this is through the concept of the numinous, described in the classic work The Idea of … Continue reading →
There's been a huge kerfuffle in the quantum gravity community since this summer, when some people here at UCSB published a paper arguing that (old enough) black holes may actually be surrounded by a wall of fire which burns people … Continue reading →
Science involves Precise Description. To be capable of being confirmed or ruled out at the high levels of reliability associated with Science, a hypothesis must be stated in a way which is precise enough to do definitive tests. Even if … Continue reading →