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How do you define "the universe"?

Actually a quite nice article. After also spending years as a professional physicist not understanding entropy, I finally decided that I was not necessarily the problem, and spent …

Probably better not to use the term "steady state" here (even if pretty appropriate) in that the "steady state" cosmological model is/was one that is exponentially expanding, with …

For those who happen to like both geometric algebra and general relativity, my former student Joey Schindler wrote this quite beautiful paper extending geometric algebra to calculu…

That was a fascinating read; thank you. Not every day that I learn about a whole new important multiverse!

A real challenge for prediction markets (with real-money stakes) will be to get sufficient liquidity on relatively small-ticket items outside of sports and politics. For such items…

agreed! The starwisp paper is really very nice.

The plan calls for ultra-reflective coatings that are tuned to the wavelength of the laser. Apparently these exist, though I have not checked the numbers. In my class I abandoned l…

This is a pretty cool initiative — I looked into beamed propulsion a bit while teaching a course this past fall, and it seems to me that if we (or human technologies) are going to …

This is a pretty cool initiative — I looked into beamed propulsion a bit while teaching a course this past fall, and it seems to me that if we (or human technologies) are going to …