Warning: this particular article is going to be quite a bit more incomprehensible than my other articles. It is part of a discussion Alex Popescu, I, and a poster that goes by Disagreeable Me have been having on some tricky aspects of probabilistic inferences, particul… Read more

Is fine-tuning evidence of the multiverse? I argue that no, but paradoxically the inference to the multiverse may still be valid. All of the background is in my main multiverse article , but this one is still pretty self-contained. You actually don't even need to k… Read more

Have you ever wondered: what if everything I see around me is just an illusion, a dream? This might sound like a silly possibility that only a child or a philosopher would seriously entertain, but I want to show you it's far more serious than that. In fact, in some… Read more

Some people say that the United States is the only country that has freedom of speech. An example of such people would be the popular conservative personality Steven Crowder. His argument (which you can hear in the video below) is based on the fact that other countries… Read more

Many prominent physicists believe that fine-tuning implies the existence of a vast number of different universes, many theologians believe it implies God. Others say that it implies neither and that everyone else is just being silly. Two opposing views were recently p… Read more

We are used to talking about laws of nature (such as F = ma), but what are they? Or maybe where are they? Here are my answers to someone curious about this on Physics Stack Exchange (with minor edits).      Q. Are the laws of physics something that exists separately f… Read more

Sometimes we are told that entropy is a measure of disorder, and disorder in the Universe always increases. So in which case does this disorder increase more: if we make a large ordered structure, like a skyscraper, or a smaller one, like a small house? This is essent… Read more