I Sing the Body Electric

In the 1990 film Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks’s memoir of the same name, a patient named Lucy Fishman (Alice Drummond), although in a semi-catatonic state, suddenly catches a ball when ...
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Light’s Speed as 2D Boundary

I am suggesting we orient ourselves to the universe in a novel way; that we see reality as emerging from 2D, and treat light as a 2D plane. When viewed ...
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50 Years of Black-Scholes/Merton

I write about the nature of reality and the mechanics of perception. Last year, I spoke at MIT at an event honoring 50 years of Black-Scholes/Merton. My father, Fischer Black, ...
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Germs Cause Disease. What Causes Germs?

While researching the infectious vectors of Blastocystis hominis, I came across some interesting statistics. According to Wikipedia, the pathogen exists in four different states, only one of which results in ...
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Seeing Eye to Eye

As time dilates (e.g. on top of a mountain), my perception of pH7 changes. True pH7 reads as acidity to me when I am too dilated (vasodilated). As time contracts ...
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ALS, PD: Dealing with Forces

An observer who is too dense (too condensed) has too much dark energy. An observer who is too diffuse (too expanded) has too much dark matter. We can make the ...
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