Irrational dissatisfactions with physics

When people aren't understanding certain issues in physics and when they're asking questions, e.g. at the Physics Stack Exchange , t...

Speed of light is variable: only in junk media

Francis the Emule (Spanish) diplomatically agrees with me... If you open Google Science News at this very moment, the #1 story is saying t...

Science cannot answer moral questions II

I wrote about the same topic three years ago and probably at many other places, too. However, Sean Carroll revived the topic again, Science...

We don't live in a simulation

In 2011, I already wrote a text about the theories that our universe is a computer simulation: Rebooting the Cosmos Needless to say, a regul...

Learning physics is futile without practicing

LHC news: CMS released two papers with 20/fb of the 8 TeV 2012 data. Remarkably enough, both the dijet paper (Figure 5) and the dilepton p...

A pro-firewall paper

The black hole firewall saga has continued with several new papers. Since the last blog entry about the topic, three Japanese authors pro...