About this site
Many physicists describe nature in mathematics. These pages explore the same questions in plain language — looking at where space, time, light, and perception meet, and at where they might come apart.
The site is a personal notebook. New essays appear below as they are written. Older traditions — the Tao Te Ching, the desert fathers, the poet-saints of India — were awake to a world wider than the one Newton described, and these notes try to take that seriously alongside the modern theories.
Recent essays
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On magic and the edge of physics
An event that does not fit the accepted laws of physics could be called magic. But the box we think outside of is one we built ourselves — and Einstein already widened it once.
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A list of theories worth taking seriously
From quantum entanglement to bilocation — a running list of the theories and phenomena this site will return to.
Further reading
- Some fringe theories go on to become a widely accepted part of physics — Wikipedia
- What is the fabric of reality? — Nature
- Science is not about certainty — The New Republic