Nicolas Gisin (and colleagues) have executed an enormous test of the Bell-inequalities! Their experiment will span laboratories in the cities of Geneva, Satigny, and Jussy. I believe that makes it…
Read moreVisualize a Black Hole at the Event Horizon
This cute little animation shows the causal structure around a classical black hole in an interesting way. The perspective is that of a body orbiting just outside the event horizon:…
Read moreHow Far Out Is Quantum Theory Really?
The quantum world is commonly conceived of as (i) wildly strange, and (ii) far removed from everyday experience. But (i) certainly need not be true: many find quantum theory quite…
Read morePHIL-∞: An Infinite Seminar?
Can every philosophy seminar be correctly completed in either finite time or infinite time? Here’s a (gödelesque) answer in the negative, in the form of a philosophy seminar I’m calling…
Read morePittsburgh HPS Proves That P
Who knows where these came from, but I’m sure that they are not endorsed by the parties mentioned. Earman. Start with plain vanilla Minkowski spacetime (in which obviously not p),…
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