Quantumleap42

A blog by an astrophysicist mostly about things that have nothing to do with astrophysics.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Stories from My Mission: Ethnic Tensions in Argentina

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Normally when you think about ethnic tensions and strife Argentina is not a place that you would associate with that kind of thing, mostly b...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Stories from My Mission: Sandra Gets Baptized

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This story comes from the second area of my mission in the city of Sáenz Peña. Whenever a missionary arrives in an area the standard procedu...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Stories from My Mission: Who in the world is Tina Danner?

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[Author's Note: Those who have been following my blog for a while may have noticed that I never use my own name on my blog. There really...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Too hard, even for God?

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I recently started reading The Social Conquest of Earth  by Edward O. Wilson. Close to the beginning of the book I came across this quote: ...
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Monday, April 1, 2013

Comparison of texts from 3 Nephi 20:23-27 and Acts 3:22-26

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Astute readers of the Book of Mormon and the Bible may have noticed that in the book of 3 Nephi there is a passage that is nearly identical ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Stories from My Mission: The Argumentative Missionary

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A while ago I posted a story about a preacher from the Assembly of God who was rather argumentative and confrontational. This story is from...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

"They came confessing their sins": What was the disputation about baptism mentioned in 3 Nephi 11?

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As recorded in 3 Nephi 11, when the Savior came to visit the Nephites, He was very clear in his explanation as to the manner of baptism. Wha...
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I earned my PhD in physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My particular field of research is astrophysics and I like to study medium sized objects like galaxies, as opposed to stars (small), galaxy clusters (large) and the universe (very large).
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