Quantumleap42

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

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Extreme Skepticism is Not Scientific

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Many years ago I was in a research group meeting where we were discussing some astrophysics related idea. One of the other graduate students...
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Sunday, December 17, 2017

My Favorite Logical Fallacy: The Suppressed Correlative

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In a post that I wrote last year I noted how some paradoxes could be resolved if you just considered how there has been a subtle shift in t...
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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Parables and Big Fish: Rereading Jonah

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In Church lessons when we talk about the parable of the Good Samaritan the discussion centers on what we learn from it, and how it applies t...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Sci-Fi Sanity Check

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A friend wrote me an email a few days ago asking for a sci-fi sanity check. He had been reading a series of sci-fi books where some interest...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Why the Neutron Star Collision was an Important Observation

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I am going to take a moment to actually talk about astrophysics (I know, it's a shock! To actually talk about what I do). Back on Augu...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Cheating at Connect the Dots: Failing to see the whole picture of Mormonism

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Recently I was reading an article by a historian of Mormon history and it got me thinking about playing connect the dots. You see, playing ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

Nephite Hymns

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Just like every other culture in the world the Nephites had their own songs and would sing as a form of religious observance. In the Book of...
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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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