Condensed concepts

We are surrounded by scientific knowledge and have become so used to it that we often take science for granted. We may rarely reflect on the...

Richard Flanagan is an esteemed Australian writer. My son recently gave our family a copy of Flanagan's recent book, Question 7 . It is...

The Netflix series, 3-body Problem , features physics and physicists throughout. I am not a big fan of science fiction, but watched the firs...

In 2016, when I saw the first results from the LIGO gravitational wave interferometer my natural caution and skepticism kicked in. They had ...

What is real? What is true? These big questions are central to philosophy and issues in the philosophy of science. Emergent properties of co...

When I read Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek I learnt something that I found beautiful and amazing about general relativity and quantum field ...

 This post takes off from the following Einstein quotes. "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensib...

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution , which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental ski...

Being in a management position is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for academic leadership. Senior managers at Australian univ...

Science requires humility. Any scientific investigation starts with acknowledging ignorance. Scientific progress requires a willingness to a...

The picture below is of Godel's rotating universe . It represents an exact solution to Einstein's gravitational field equations and ...

Via Peter Woit's blog I read an interesting article What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics? Einstein and Feynman ushered me into ...

Sometimes I give talks about science to high school students and to community groups, mostly churches. Recently I showed this one. Besid...

Yesterday, at UQ  Robert Mann gave a nice Quantum Science seminar, " Hot and Cold Accelerating Detectors". It concerned the  Un...

The Stokes-Einstein equation relates the diffusion constant D of a macroscopic particle of radius r undergoing a Brownian motion to the v...

Our natural tendency is to think that to see the effects of Einstein's special theory of relativity you have to be travelling at some si...

I fear that may be the case. Previous cases of premature announcements include cold fusion, "life on mars" [really dead germs on ...

Einstein considered that quantum mechanics must only be an approximate theory which was derivable from a "classical" theory which ...