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The deep ocean floor is covered in naturally-occurring batteries that make oxygen... Wait, WHAT?!
This has HUGE implications for life on icy moons. Interesting New Paper #3...
Jul 28
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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…
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GUEST POST: Robert Hazen on whether there’s a “missing law of nature”
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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
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Why the Gambler’s Fallacy argument does not apply to cosmological natural selection
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May 2024
My dad is still dead; but life, ah, life goes on
A personal update
May 31
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My dad is still dead; but life, ah, life goes on
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February 2024
My father has died suddenly and unexpectedly
This is for anyone who knew him
Feb 28
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My father has died suddenly and unexpectedly
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Down to the flickering sea of quarks
Exploring the profound flaw that underlies all our current theories of the universe
Feb 26
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Down to the flickering sea of quarks
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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
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Icy Moons, 1: There’s phosphorus on Enceladus!
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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
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The Emperor’s New Universe
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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
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Killer new evidence that supermassive black holes may indeed form first, before galaxies. (Yeah, as I predicted...) PLUS, some more predictions, while I'm hot.
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November 2023
If you are going to San Francisco...
Let's meet up
Nov 10, 2023
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If you are going to San Francisco...
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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
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Holy crap, I've just realised that cosmological natural selection gives you the structure of the universe (FIRST DRAFT #1, give me feedback...)
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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
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It's Milky Ways all the way back! (Interesting New Paper #1)
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