Is there any objective reality at all?
"As measurements improve further, physicists will be left with two possible interpretations of the wavefunction: either the wavefunction is completely real, or nothing is."
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Anglicanism and Evolution; “show, don’t tell”
What do Anglicans believe about evolution and the relationship between science and faith? That it's a fantastically interesting conversation with lots for both parties to learn.
Pursuing the Mystery of Science and Faith – a sermon
I preached this sermon last week at the 2014 Ecumenical Round Table meeting on Science, Technology and the Church meeting in Salt Lake City last week. A rabbi once told me, in a conversation about faith and science, that God hides the truth from us, and expects us to work, using all of our faculties to find it. That’s a counter to the common understanding of how Science or Theology work, but for those of […]
What’s going on with the new data from BICEP?
I've seen a number of news reports over the last day talking about the newly announced detection of primordial gravity waves by the BICEP program at the South Pole. Most of them trumpet these results as proving the Big Bang. That's not what's going on here.
Cosmological principle in trouble? Maybe.
There's been a recent observational challenge. New images of a Large Quasar Group (LQG) show a structure much larger than should be allowed
What will work and employment become?
Jobs are going away. Even cruddy, dehumanizing jobs of the sort that so many people decried during the height of the Industrial revolution. With no work, and no way to provide for a family's needs, it's no wonder that we're seeing a breakdown in the structures of community.
Why study Physics.
A truly lovely short film by a Rhode Islander – who studied physics at Brown and design and animation at RISD – both a few blocks from where I sit as I write this sentence. Why Do I Study Physics? (2013) from Xiangjun Shi on Vimeo. Take a few minutes to watch it and then look at the world around you with your new rational and irrational eyes…
Science and Religion: Can There Be A Conversation?
Last week I gave a talk in Little Compton Rhode Island on the complexity involved in the conversation between the scientific and theological enterprises. There were two big take-aways I hoped people would leave with.
Lucas Mix: Is Christianity Opposed to Science?
Do religious ideas and institutions impede the advancemen of scientific knowledge? Lucas Mix argues, and demonstrates, that they do not.
Ansible Today: Entanglement action measured at 10,000x light speed
Chinese Physicists Measure Speed of “Spooky Action At a Distance” The group claims that they have measured that entangled photons interact with each other at speed that is at least ten thousand times the speed of light. This modifies a similar experiment done recently but which was criticized because the measurement couldn’t be guaranteed to depend solely on entanglement. Can the ansible be far behind?
