I’m working on a giant post about the 2nd Annual Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Conference I attended a few months ago. My mid-life crisis has taken the form of a desire to get my head entirely […]
A Cafe I visit routinely on my morning commute exploded yesterday. We also took pictures of a black hole for the first time. My son used his potty for the first time. Feeling slightly overwhelmed by […]
A few weeks ago I attended the Rutgers/Columbia Symposium on the Metaphysics of Quantum Field Theory. This morning in the shower a few things I’ve been thinking about snapped into place relating to that conference and […]
Big slow storms of Jupiter, help sooth us. Sooth us with your patient weather, ochre, gamboge, carmine, grey, swirling storms, giant. And auroras, lightning, huge, cathartic. Let us be like Galileo’s nameless daughter, who threw herself […]
Black holes are cold, or so I am told. And the bigger, the colder. So voracious and unspacious, they must take it, all in, all in. Even heat. When the universe gets cold enough, (meaning old […]
For a long time, I’ve been interested in the sorts of questions exemplified by the following example: Suppose we are Isaac Newton or Gottfried Leibniz. We have at our disposal two sources of inspiration: data, collected […]