Monthly Archives: June 2011

While writing blog posts tonight and watching “Through The Wormhole” at the same time, I heard the great physicist-ex-plumber Leonard Susskind say, “My relationship with Stephen Hawking has been what might be called adversarial.  But we are friends!  We are … Continue reading →

Saying e=mc sq seems to me like saying that a material object is somehow the same as a thought-concept about the relation between two material objects, namely the relative velocity between them, or, alternatively, a force over a given distance. … Continue reading →

In the movie, “The Quantum Activist” one of the world’s most distinguished quantum physicist’s brilliantly resolves the apparent paradoxes and problems of quantum physics by positing that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of everything.  He may very well be … Continue reading →

First, physicists as physicists seem to make wonderful physicists.  I believe them to be, as a group, intelligent and hugely creative, and there’s no problem at all here. Second, let’s look at physicists playing mathematicians.  First, I really must confess … Continue reading →

Apparently, as you may know, our having two eyes allows our brains to fuse two different 2-D images from slightly different angles into a  single image which we then perceive as having three dimensions, i.e., an image which includes the … Continue reading →