Rondam Ramblings

Don Geddis pointed out a problem with my relativity animation:... with either Linda or Ralph stationary, you have the angled light hitting the end clock at "the same moment" as the light pulse that just goes straight up and down.

With a lot of help from ChatGPT I generated a little interactive animation to help visualize what is going on in the classic light-clock thought experiment.

It's time to talk about time.Time, like consciousness, is another one of those things that is at once intimately familiar and deeply mysterious.

I made a big mistake in my previous entry in this series.

Donald Trump has pulled the last U.S. aircraft carrier out of Asia to help prosecute the war in the Middle East.

The title of this series, "Seeking God in Science", was meant to be a metaphor.

The papers are burying the lede on the story of SCOTUS ruling in favor of birthright citizenship.

Subject line says it all.

It might appear that I have been going to some pretty extreme lengths to belabor the obvious: we live in a world populated by material objects made of atoms.

In the previous installment in this series I introduced the concept of information, which I defined as correlations between states.

We are now finally ready to tackle three of the thorniest topics the human intellect has ever grappled with, the concepts of information, knowledge, and belief.

From earliest recorded history mankind has wondered how life on earth first arose.

In the previous two installments we talked about chairs, specifically, what distinguishes a chair from a non-chair.

At the end of the last installment in this series I made a prediction: you believe that matter is made of atoms.

My father died last week.

I concluded the last installment in this series with a deceptively simple claim: Things exist.

Ulua beach, Wailea-Makena, Maui, before the storm: and after:

Those of you who watched my debate will know that I was in Hawaii at the time.

Last Saturday I did my first on-line debate in four years with a YouTuber who goes by the handle MadeByJimBob (who I will refer to simply as JB since JimBob is not actually his real name and MadeByJimBob is just too long).

The mere undertaking of this project of reconciling the mechanistic and teleological worldviews is already chock-a-block with tacit assumptions.

About ten years ago I decided to take a deep dive into young-earth creationism (YEC).

Almost two years ago I started writing a series of posts about the scientific method.

Am I really the only one to notice the staggering hypocrisy in how the Trump administration is responding to protests against the government in Iran vs here in the U.S.?

One of the things I did this year was to engage in one of the most ridiculously long Reddit discussion threads ever, and that is really saying something.

I don't watch right-wing media personalities much because I find it too painful.

You would think that after the disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq that Republicans would have learned that starting a war in that part of the world is a Really Bad Idea (tm).

And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.You shall have no other gods before me.