Tim Andersen, Ph.D.Rebellion in an absurd universeAlbert Camus likened life to the plight of Sisyphus, the ancient Greek man condemned to roll a stone up a hill in the underworld, only to…Jul 106Jul 106
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.We may never stop climate change without massive investment in biofuelsA recent article about a Tiktok that a PhD student made about a video Ben Shapiro made commenting on a statement by Greta Thunberg appeared…Jul 423Jul 423
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.Studies of the climate millions of years ago suggest global warming could get much worse than modelCan we trust these “proxy” models?Jul 214Jul 214
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.The end of the universe, not the beginning, may be the moment of creationLast week’s article got me thinking about time inversion and I looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like this one…Jun 1023Jun 1023
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.How time inversion really worksTenet came out in 2020 which seems like a lifetime ago now. The Christopher Nolan sci-fi thriller quickly became divisive partly because…Jun 75Jun 75
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.Zero-point energy may not existIn a previous post, I talked about how there might be more ordinary explanations for the Casimir effect that do not rely on vacuum energy…May 2313May 2313
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.Dark matter may come from the fifth dimensionAfter years of tinkering with tensor calculus, my paper explaining dark matter with a 5th dimension has been published in the peer-reviewed…May 1332May 1332
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.The Casimir effect may not come from vacuum energyRecently 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…Apr 299Apr 299
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.Dark energy may come from the thermodynamics of spacetimeThe recent DESI results, which are quite preliminary, suggest that dark energy, the substance that makes up the majority of mass in our…Apr 239Apr 239
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.A light beam falling into a black hole may help us understand timeWhat 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…Mar 2013Mar 2013