Simply Curious
My thoughts on and your responses to interesting topics in the Physical Sciences
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2026
- How I tried to build a crowd of AIs – and what it taught me about their shared mind
- Ecuador, the Galápagos, and Peru: Notes from a Curious Traveler
2025
- Measurement, Decoherence, and Why Quantum Outcomes Appear Stable
- What’s the connection between spin and statistics – a simple argument
- Why the Universe Isn’t Overflowing with Vacuum Energy: A Curious Field Theory Detour
2024
2023
- Hawking radiation: a weight-loss program for black holes – another black hole conundrum and a cute connection between black holes and quantum field theory
- Black hole conundrums – how to extract information from a black hole
- Unruh and Hawking – or how I get randomness from order, i.e., something ordered that looks random.
2022
2021
2020
2019
- Schrodinger’s Cat Lives again!
- Three pieces – and some puzzles
- Tales of Karatsuba
- Error Correcting Codes and the Quantum version
2018
- Modulo arithmetic & cards
- Gauge invariance, Global and Local Symmetry
- Binary/Ternary codes and card tricks
- p-‘s and q-‘s redux
- Minding your p-‘s and q-‘s
- Math, Rhythmic patterns & A Card Trick
- Of Baby Hummers and clock arithmetic with Aryabhata and Archimedes
- Gedankenexperiments #1
- The Indian musical drums
- The Rule of 72 – and what does the Swiss National Bank have to do with it
- Bucking down to the Bakhshali manuscript
- Schrodinger’s Zoo
- Why do chocolate wrappers stick to things
2017
- Is the longest day the warmest day?
- Can you travel faster through time?
- Coffee, anyon?
- The unreasonable importance of 1.74 seconds
- New kinds of Cash & the connection to the Conservation of Energy And Momentum
- The Normal Distribution is AbNormal
- Mr. Olbers and his paradox
- The Great American Eclipse of 2017
- Mr. Einstein and my GPS
- Master Traders and Bayes’ theorem
- Fermi Gases and Stellar Collapse – Cosmology Post #6
- Coincidences and the stealthiness of the Calculus of Probabilities
- Arbitrage arguments in Finance and Physics
- The earth is flat – in Cleveland
- Special Relativity; Or how I learned to relax and love the Anti-Particle
- Can a quantum particle come to a fork in the road and take it?
- A digression on statistics and a party with Ms. Fermi-Dirac and Mr. Bose (Post #5)
- Cosmology: Cepheid Variables – or why Henrietta couldn’t Leavitt alone …(Post #4)
- Cosmology: Distance Measurements – Parallax (Post #3)
- Cosmology and the Expanding Universe ..(Post #2)
- A simple sum
- A course correction – and let’s get started!
- A simple connection between Entropy and Information
- Here’s an alternative history of how quantum mechanics came about…
- Another physics blog? Why?
