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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 mind may be incapable of understanding quantum mechanics intuitively

The Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman famously said, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” There has…

Oct 17

The mind may be incapable of understanding quantum mechanics intuitively

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Quantum theory may be more like Einstein’s relativity than we think

In June this year, 300 people, including physicists, four Nobel Laureates, and journalists, converged on an island in the North Sea called…

Oct 11

Quantum theory may be more like Einstein’s relativity than we think

Oct 11

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The quantum vacuum may explain why there is something instead of nothing

Make an “O” shape with your thumb and forefinger and contemplate it. It represents both a number and a concept: zero, nothing. In between…

Oct 1

The quantum vacuum may explain why there is something instead of nothing

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Dark matter cloud may have been found in our own Milky Way galaxy

Artist’s impression of the merger of two neutron stars producing a gamma ray burst. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine

Sep 26

Dark matter cloud may have been found in our own Milky Way galaxy

Sep 26

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Dark matter galaxies may not exist

I often see this “fact” making the rounds still:

Sep 21

Dark matter galaxies may not exist

Sep 21

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Time may emerge from quantum entanglement with clocks

There is a fairly large group of physicists who believe that time is a statistical phenomenon like temperature and pressure. This is…

Sep 18

Time may emerge from quantum entanglement with clocks

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Phantom dark energy and these other phenomena may destroy black holes

Black holes are the densest and most powerful objects known to our species. Nothing escapes them once it gets too close and crosses the…

Sep 4

Phantom dark energy and these other phenomena may destroy black holes

Sep 4

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The dominant model of cosmology may be falling apart

Challenges to the ΛCDM can no longer be ignored

Aug 28

The dominant model of cosmology may be falling apart

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Feynman may have been wrong about the Brownian ratchet being impossible

A Brownian ratchet is any device that can harvest energy from Brownian motion, that is, random thermal motion such as the motion of air…

Aug 19

Feynman may have been wrong about the Brownian ratchet being impossible

Aug 19

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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