Shahn Majid
Reflections on a Self-Representing Universe
Shahn Majid This will be my last regular post for a while because of Christmas and teaching three courses next term at my University. These past eleven posts, see here and here, have been my personal take on many of the topics covered in On Space and Time and its now time in this twelfth [...]
Quantum Gravity Solved! … If You’re an Ant
Shahn Majid After last week’s imaginative speculation, I’d better tell you something concrete. How about the solution to quantum gravity that has been eluding us for some 90 years? Here it is … er … with one minor catch. We’ll have to suppose that spacetime is 3 dimensional, i.e. one time and only two space [...]
Aristotle May Provide the Key to Quantum Gravity
Shahn Majid So far in these posts we have looked at testable quantum gravity effects, but I have not said much about the ultimate theory of quantum gravity itself. There is a simple reason: I do not think we have a compelling theory yet. Rather, I think that this deepest and most long-standing of all [...]
Quantum Anomaly and the Origin of Time
First off, newly syndicated readers who want to have access to my previous posts can find them archived here as well as listed on my own site here. After last week’s speculations on time I would like to ask an even deeper question: why is there time? My 4 year old daughter would be proud. [...]
History, Economics, and Time Reversal
Shahn Majid First off, congratulations America! Electing the first black US president has to be significant and already puts Obama into the history books, whatever economic and other problems may loom worryingly in the future. Certainly his work will be cut out for him given the falls in the stock market and some of the [...]
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