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The Infinite Universe: A First Principles Guide

The Infinite Universe: A First Principles Guide

Understanding the universe don't have to be hard or take a long time if we start from first principles

2021

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How to live in an absurd universe

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus

Oct 15, 2022

How to live in an absurd universe

Oct 15, 2022

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The Tip of the Red Giant Branch has pushed the Hubble tension into full blown crisis

The Hubble tension is the growing discrepancy between measurements of Hubble’s constant. This is the constant that tells us how fast the…

Mar 4

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch has pushed the Hubble tension into full blown crisis

Mar 4

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New quantum simulation tries to explain the death of the universe

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Feb 10

New quantum simulation tries to explain the death of the universe

Feb 10

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The evidence has been growing that the universe is infinite but it may all come crashing down

In his masterpiece, On the Nature of Things, Lucretius (99 BC — 50 BC), a Greek Epicurean philosopher, proposed a thought experiment. He…

Feb 3

The evidence has been growing that the universe is infinite but it may all come crashing down

Feb 3

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Purpose may be an emergent property of life

Teleology returns to biology

Jan 26

Purpose may be an emergent property of life

Jan 26

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The Multiverse may not remove the need for a Personal Creator

Scientists agree that the universe was in a hot dense period approximately 13.8 billion years ago. Everything we have observed from the…

Jan 21

The Multiverse may not remove the need for a Personal Creator

Jan 21

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Humans are responsible for the LA fires but not because of climate change

Climate change is increasing the number and size of fires in California and other parts of the world. However, depending on the biome…

Jan 18

Humans are responsible for the LA fires but not because of climate change

Jan 18

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The Largest Structure in the Universe should not exist

It certainly has convinced me that we’re not living in a homogeneous, isotropic [Universe]. I mean these things that I really suspected in…

Jan 13

The Largest Structure in the Universe should not exist

Jan 13

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The universe’s missing antimatter may be all around us

Experiments this year at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) demonstrated that collisions that produce anti-matter produce equal amounts of…

Jan 3

The universe’s missing antimatter may be all around us

Jan 3

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The Many Worlds of quantum mechanics may be waves in a 5th dimension

I have argued for a while that quantum mechanics can be interpreted correctly if you introduce a 5th dimension. In that case, different…

Dec 19, 2024

The Many Worlds of quantum mechanics may be waves in a 5th dimension

Dec 19, 2024

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

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1.2M views. Principal Research Scientist at Georgia Tech. The Infinite Universe (2020). andersenuniverse.com; https://timandersen.substack.com/

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