Mathematics Rising

Sean Carroll, Theoretical Physicist at the California Institute of Technology has recently published a new book.  Entitled The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Higgs Boson Leads us to the Edge of a New World it discusses the importance of the Higgs boson as well as the significance of the extraordinary work [...]

I ventured down a series of paths today, no doubt related, but with no quick and easy way to tie them together.  So I decided to invite you to look with me and let your mind play. I started with a couple of talks at a recent at a recent Foundational Questions Institute conference on [...]

In a recent post on the Scientific American blog network, George Musser reported on talks given by neuroscientists at a conference, organized by the Foundational Questions Institute on how the brain works to construct our sense of past, present and future. Musser’s post made some observations that were familiar to me – like the idea [...]