This is a more speculative and exploratory blog, sometimes including wild adventures of imagination; usually trying to remain rooted in the prevailing paradigms, but sometimes going out on a limb…
So… Light is sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle??? It has “wave-particle duality”? Is it just that both descriptions are more like metaphors, and both are too partial? It feels clunky and unsatisfying having to keep switching between models to adequately grasp what light actually is… Isn’t there some model which encompasses and incorporates […]
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What if…? ‘Dark Energy’ was actually… well… light? “Don’t be daft!” I hear you say… bear with me a moment… but first: What is Dark Energy? Well… in 1998 we had a shock revelation, when measurements attempting to bring some precision to the value of the “Hubble Constant” led to an unexpected result. One of the original
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This part of my blog is rooted in the faculty of imagination and trying to strengthen and hone it. Einstein was a great believer, with his ‘thought experiments’, and Kekule’s dream* famously illustrates the value of sleep, or dream-states, in re-envisaging things. I sometimes tell my students that Science is “the
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