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Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

Rebellion in an absurd universe

Albert 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 10

Rebellion in an absurd universe

Jul 10

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

We may never stop climate change without massive investment in biofuels

A 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 4

We may never stop climate change without massive investment in biofuels

Jul 4

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

Studies of the climate millions of years ago suggest global warming could get much worse than model

Can we trust these “proxy” models?

Jul 2

Studies of the climate millions of years ago suggest global warming could get much worse than model

Jul 2

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

The end of the universe, not the beginning, may be the moment of creation

Last week’s article got me thinking about time inversion and I looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like this one…

Jun 10

The end of the universe, not the beginning, may be the moment of creation

Jun 10

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

How time inversion really works

Tenet came out in 2020 which seems like a lifetime ago now. The Christopher Nolan sci-fi thriller quickly became divisive partly because…

Jun 7

How time inversion really works

Jun 7

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

Zero-point energy may not exist

In 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 23

Zero-point energy may not exist

May 23

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

Dark matter may come from the fifth dimension

After years of tinkering with tensor calculus, my paper explaining dark matter with a 5th dimension has been published in the peer-reviewed…

May 13

Dark matter may come from the fifth dimension

May 13

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…

Apr 29

The Casimir effect may not come from vacuum energy

Apr 29

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

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…

Apr 23

Dark energy may come from the thermodynamics of spacetime

Apr 23

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

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…

Mar 20

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

Mar 20

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