Cancer

I am looking at health in a holographic universe, and interpreting illness in terms of a relationship to the speed of light. I have a new paper under submission. Here ...
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Fischer Black

I recently came across an article about my dad that I had never read before, from The Journal of Finance. I especially love the final sentence, about having the intellectual ...
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The Flaws in Our Models

1) The center of the local universe is not the sun. The center of the local universe is the observer. 2) Gravity is not a force. Einstein showed us this. ...
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Quantum Tunneling

In 2016, in Physical Review Letters, new research was published that was quietly shocking. "Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have squeezed water molecules between hexagonal beryl ...
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Biochemist Nick Lane

The biochemist Nick Lane raises a lot of interesting points in this interview with Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-origin-reframes-cancer-and-aging-20220808/ Here is my favorite passage: This ties into some of your ideas about ...
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Why Do the Planets [Appear to] Move?

The perception of motion is a funny thing. It requires a frame of reference. When you are on a train, the trees appear to move. But are they, really? Instead ...
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