Prologue: 2x3x7 No, they’re not dimensions, though we may have to visit dimensions later. In Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ series (books, radio, TV: take your pick) a giant super-computer (by the name of ‘Deep Thought’) is built to answer the question of ‘Life, The Universe and Everything’. After millennia of calculation, Deep […]
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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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I mean, actually know for certain? That you have an ‘inner’ life of thoughts and feelings. Whether they are ‘right’ or even meaningful is a separate question. (Given that we know that we are prone to mistakes, we know that they can sometimes be ‘wrong’.) Whether they are really ‘just chemicals messing with your brain’
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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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This is a more personal and reflective blog, sharing some of how I arrived at my current perspective on reality. It is inherently subjective, although I will be striving for enough objectivity for it to be recognisable to other people, and perhaps reflecting some of their own experiences. It is very
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