Particles and Interactions
Recently, I gave a talk on particles and interactions to my daughter’s classmates who were planning on a trip to […]
Physics
Physics was my first love. This category contains the posts closest to my heart. Twenty years from now, if this blog survives, this category will probably hold my most enduring insights. And two hundred years from now, if I am remembered at all, it will be for these insights; not for the kind of person I am, the money I make, nor anything else. Only for my first and last love…
Sensory and Physical Worlds
Animals have different sensory capabilities compared to us humans. Cats, for instance, can hear up to 60kHz, while the highest
Problem of Free Will
Free will is a problem. If all of us are physical machines, obeying laws of physics, then all our movements
What Does it Feel Like to be a Bat?
It is a sensible question: What does it feel like to be a bat? Although we can never really know
Other Known Conspiracies
A conspiracy theory remains a theory and fodder for crackpots until it is blown wide open. At that point, the
The Origins of Gods
The atheist-theist debate boils down to a simple question — Did humans discover God? Or, did we invent Him? The
9/11 Debunkers
Personally, one of the main reasons I started taking the conspiracy theories about 9/11 seriously is the ardor and certainty
Atheism and Unreal God
Here is a slightly more formal argument against atheism We have a physical realm and a mental one. Why not say God lives in the mental or spiritual realm?
9/11 – Motives for Mass Murder
In the first post in this series, we saw that 7 World Trade Center building was the smoking gun of
Atheism vs. God Experience
I have a reason for delaying this post on the fifth and last argument for God by Dr. William Lane
9/11 Conspiracy
Some people are more susceptible to conspiracy theories than others. I am one of them. But even to me, the
Atheism and the Morality of the Godless
In the previous post, we considered the cosmological argument (that the Big Bang theory is an affirmation of a God)