Quantumleap42

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

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Zeus and Aristotle: Explanations of Lightning

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A while back I was reading some comments on a blog and someone threw out a statement that made me stop and think for a moment, but definitel...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

"The meek are makarioi for they shall inherit the earth."

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When I entered into the MTC to learn Spanish for my mission I needed a Spanish to English dictionary to help me along. They gave every missi...
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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Seasons of the Church

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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.                           -- Ecclesiastes 3:1 In the April...
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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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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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