The promiscuous nature of the multiverse may be unappealing (William James, who coined the word, called the multiverse a ‘harlot’), but it is hard to eliminate. As a final insult to unity, the laws of quantum mechanics indicate that the […]
Barbelo
Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun
…the future of the cosmos is perhaps bright and fecund, but do not bother asking about going any deeper into the past. We might never know what happened before inflation, at the very beginning, because inflation erases everything that came […]
Quantum fluctuations
Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect… is not a part of how these fluctuations work… So in the big bang, the establishment of ‘law’ came after the event itself, but of […]
The Barbelo : Womb of the Universe
BIRTH OF THE BARBELO A convention common to many ancient philosophical speculations was the designation of deities as male and their thoughts as female. Neither, in this sense, is truly separable from the other; they exist in eternal androgynous union, […]