Quantumleap42

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

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Parallel Lines and Broken Symmetry

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Broken Symmetry When I took this picture I was trying to capture the vanishing effect of two parallel lines. But the road wasn't qui...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Alternate Punctuation for Alma 37:46

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Today I was reading in Alma 37 in the Book of Mormon and noticed that if the punctuation was changed slightly in verse 46 then it would hig...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Knowledge: The Stuff of Rational Thought

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Recently I was involved in a comment thread under an article about religion. I know, it's not a very smart thing to do, but there was...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Amaron Misquoted Scripture

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You may not remember who Amaron is, partly because he only contributed five short verses to the Book of Mormon. He is perhaps most famous fo...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

The Checklist Generation: Conflating Culture with the Church

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I was recently reading something by a former member of the Church who was relating their experience as a member. As they reported they came ...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Nephite Coins: Reading our preconceptions into the text

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I didn't intend to write this much on this topic but I just keep thinking about it. Previously I wrote about how, taken out of context...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

The Work of God and Man

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The difference between the work of God and the work of man is the work of God does not end with death.
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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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