Quantumleap42

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

Saturday, March 31, 2018

A Fundamental Disconnect in What is Important

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I spend a lot of time reading a variety of views on the Church and Mormonism in general. Every so often some online community of saints or f...
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Monday, March 26, 2018

Brigham Young and the Aliens on the Sun

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The title for this post is something you would expect from a cheap pulp science fiction novel rather than a serious discussion about religio...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

The Fundamentals of Philosophy

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This is by no means a comprehensive introduction to philosophy, but it contains the basics. This is not  what you would get by taking an int...
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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...
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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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