Real Physics

A Realistic Exploration into Nature

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Words in Science

A pretty convinced article on "climate change" in the October Physics Today makes an excellent point about the unusual way scie...

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Science & Faith Conference

Franciscan University is holding a conference on " Can Science Inform Our Understanding of God? " Friday, December 2 through Satur...

Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Limits of the "Cosmic Speed Limit"

No doubt you've seen the news of the reported observation of neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. Aside from throwing ou...

Monday, September 05, 2011

The Inhumanity of Teilhard de Chardin

Once upon a time, among comments on Albert Camus's The Plague , Thomas Merton wrote a trenchant critique of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1...

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics

I ran across an excellent passage in one of Feynman's "extra" lectures about the need to develop physical intuition in learnin...

Monday, May 23, 2011

Academia, Encapsulated

A baccalaureate Mass I recently attended featured this hymn at the offertory: I. For the splendor of creation that draws us to inquire, for...

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Inward and Outward Activity

I haven't posted for quite a while now since I've been very busy with work. I'm also preparing a paper for a conference this sum...

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Lawrence Gage: United States; Physics Ph.D., Columbia University · IAP Certified · Midwife's Son · Compulsive Devil's Advocate · Humanist Skeptic · Amateur Camel Strainer · Sacred Cow Tipper · Ironman Jaywalker

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