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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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Roger Penrose’s paradox won’t tell us if the past and future exist

Yesterday morning, I opened YouTube to check on my recently posted video and saw this video from Sabine Hossenfelder on the Andromeda…

Apr 29

Roger Penrose’s paradox won’t tell us if the past and future exist

Apr 29

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The Many Worlds may be a 2nd time dimension

The classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut explores the concept of time as linear and unchanging. In it the main character…

Apr 14

The Many Worlds may be a 2nd time dimension

Apr 14

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Reality and consciousness may emerge from each other

Panpsychism is the belief that Mind is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world.

Apr 7

Reality and consciousness may emerge from each other

Apr 7

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This Sputnik-era paper explains why basic research pays for itself

But dangers lurk when we let industry do too much of it

Mar 31

This Sputnik-era paper explains why basic research pays for itself

Mar 31

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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

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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