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Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

The Casimir effect may not come from vacuum energy

Recently I saw a post on twitter claiming that AI could be powered with quantum vacuum energy. The post was accompanied by a figure from a…

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The Casimir effect may not come from vacuum energy

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Dark energy may come from the thermodynamics of spacetime

The recent DESI results, which are quite preliminary, suggest that dark energy, the substance that makes up the majority of mass in our…

7 min readApr 23, 2024

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Dark energy may come from the thermodynamics of spacetime

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A light beam falling into a black hole may help us understand time

What would it be like to catch up to a beam of light? That was the question that the 16 year old Einstein asked himself. Ten years later…

9 min readMar 20, 2024

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A light beam falling into a black hole may help us understand time

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This supercollider in space may give us the physics breakthrough we need

The current plans for the Future Circular Collider are for it to be about 90 km in circumference, over 3 times longer than the current…

7 min readFeb 28, 2024

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This supercollider in space may give us the physics breakthrough we need

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Space and time may be two dimensional at the quantum scale

Most people know we don’t have a working theory of quantum gravity, but it is often hard to explain why. The simplest explanation is that…

10 min readFeb 21, 2024

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Space and time may be two dimensional at the quantum scale

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Does the universe work like a TARDIS?

I recently came across this problem on X/Twitter.

6 min readFeb 6, 2024

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Does the universe work like a TARDIS?

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The Trisolaran system of the Three-Body Problem could never evolve life

I have been reading the Three-Body Problem trilogy by Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu which is soon to become a Netflix series. I…

9 min readJan 29, 2024

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The Trisolaran system of the Three-Body Problem could never evolve life

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Life may have started in a primordial hive

Creation stories are common in mythology. African Bushmen believed that people and animals started out living underground in an Eden-like…

10 min readJan 23, 2024

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Life may have started in a primordial hive

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The conscious experience of time may involve a 5th dimension

Time and consciousness are two phenomena that are integral to our experience of existence but neither is well understood.

13 min readJan 7, 2024

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How Einstein knew God

Einstein spoke of God frequently when talking about the beauty and elegance of the universe. He said,

9 min readDec 22, 2023

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