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.
Scientific Theories must be Elegant. Since there are always infinitely many different hypotheses which fit any set of data, there must be some prior beliefs which we use to decide between them. Any hypothesis which has an excessive number of … Continue reading →
In honor of All Saints Day, here are some links to the saints on my blogroll: St. Anne the Weekend Fisher explains Why Christianity requires us to pray for members of violent Muslim mobs, and the Jewishness of the historical … Continue reading →
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You've probably heard that time is the fourth dimension. What does it mean? It should seem rather fishy that time should be the same sort of thing as a spatial dimension. We all know that you can only go in … Continue reading →
Scientific Hypotheses are Tested by means of Repeatable Observations. Every scientific hypothesis ultimately stands or falls based on whether it fits with observed data. The best kind of data comes from experiment, in which the details of the situation are … Continue reading →
In the old days, the word "Science" used to just mean "knowledge", no matter how you got the knowledge, or what it was about. But these days, we use the word to mean a particular kind of academic subject, distinguished … Continue reading →