Journeyman Philosopher

In my last post I referenced Kerson Huang’s book, Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields . Huang starts with Newton ’s eq...

An unlikely congregation, but bear with me and it will all become clear. Earlier this week I received 2 new books from Amazon UK : The Min...

It so happens that this topic arose indirectly on 2 blogs I follow: Stephen Law and Larry Niven’s Rust Belt Philosophy (see my blog roll...

This is not a singularity you find in black holes or at the origin of the universe – this is a metaphorical singularity entailing the breakt...

I never intended this to be a political blog, but the front page of this morning’s Age (Melbourne daily) reignited a righteous anger I fir...

It’s a sad indictment that I should feel it necessary to write this post, but the blogosphere, at least considerable sections of it, are ...