Archive - The Egg And The Rock

GUEST POST: Robert Hazen on whether there’s a “missing law of nature”

Plus a stack of notes from me, explaining how Hazen's invigorating ideas are entirely compatible with cosmological natural selection: Darwinian…

Jul 4 •

June 2024

Why the Gambler’s Fallacy argument does not apply to cosmological natural selection

My email to Philip Goff, in response to his Scientific American essay, in which he argues against multiverse explanations for our complex, fine-tuned…

Jun 17 •

May 2024

My dad is still dead; but life, ah, life goes on

A personal update

May 31 •

February 2024

My father has died suddenly and unexpectedly

This is for anyone who knew him

Feb 28 •

Down to the flickering sea of quarks

Exploring the profound flaw that underlies all our current theories of the universe

Feb 26 •

Icy Moons, 1: There’s phosphorus on Enceladus!

From alchemists to ice volcanos: an attempt to understand, and explain, the liquid water oceans sloshing about deep inside the icy moons of Saturn, …

Feb 2 •

January 2024

The Emperor’s New Universe

(I am experimenting with a shorter, punchier, more polemical style for some posts, like this one. Not to replace the longer, more sober posts, but as an…

Jan 18 •

December 2023

Killer new evidence that supermassive black holes may indeed form first, before galaxies. (Yeah, as I predicted...) PLUS, some more…

TL;DR: They've found the earliest supermassive black hole yet – and it weighs as much as ALL THE STARS IN ITS GALAXY PUT TOGETHER. (Interesting New…

Dec 12, 2023 •

November 2023

If you are going to San Francisco...

Nov 10, 2023 •

Holy crap, I've just realised that cosmological natural selection gives you the structure of the universe (FIRST DRAFT #1, give me…

OK, I’ve got a brilliant idea, not yet well expressed. (I tweeted it to a grumpy old man.) Help me make it better.

Nov 1, 2023 •

September 2023

It's Milky Ways all the way back! (Interesting New Paper #1)

A paper digging deep into new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has just flipped everything we thought we knew about early galaxies on its head

Sep 26, 2023 •

The Inaugural Irish Substack Meetup

Join us in Dublin

Published on The Fitzwilliam • Sep 25, 2023

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