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.”

Monday, December 25, 2023

Bridging the Infinite Strangeness

Thomas Nagel once wrote a famous paper "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", about how we really can't know what the internal, subje...

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Michael F. Flynn, RIP

Alas, science fiction novelist Michael F. Flynn passed to his eternal reward on September 30. His daughter announced it through his blog on...

Tuesday, August 01, 2023

A Mechanical Superstition

Just a hot take regarding this short video: A Bet Against Quantum Gravity (6.75 mins). I don't have the credentials in the field to e...

Sunday, May 07, 2023

The Fright of Infinite Spaces

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. —Pascal, Pensées , 206 It's well known that the Milky Way in the Star T...

Sunday, April 23, 2023

The Greater Does Not Come from the Less

I've been reading Garrigou-Lagrange's Providence . Perhaps its most foundational principle, highlighted in the first paragraph: ...

Sunday, January 08, 2023

Intelligence in Non-human Animals

Recently re-read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH . I was quite fond of it when I originally read it as an adolescent. I wasn't a fan of...

Friday, September 16, 2022

The Surprise of Human Adulthood

In recent years I've from time to time heard the lament that the adults aren't in charge anymore, as they were for example in the mi...

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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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