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The Ghost Problem in Massive Gravity
The Ghost Problem in Massive Gravity
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
No New Particles Needed. Dark Matter from First Principles.
No New Particles Needed. Dark Matter from First Principles.
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Symmetric Laws, Asymmetric Solutions
Symmetric Laws, Asymmetric Solutions
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Time Is a Succession of Shapes
Time Is a Succession of Shapes
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Causality Is Encoded at High Energy
Causality Is Encoded at High Energy
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Are Penrose's CMB Rings From a Prior Universe?
Are Penrose's CMB Rings From a Prior Universe?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Massive Gravity Secretly Becomes Einstein's Theory
Massive Gravity Secretly Becomes Einstein's Theory
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Separate Methodology From Ideology (Barandes)
Separate Methodology From Ideology (Barandes)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Wigner's Friend Thought Experiment Explained
Wigner's Friend Thought Experiment Explained
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
What Do We Actually Know About Dark Matter?
What Do We Actually Know About Dark Matter?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Dark Matter Does Not Follow Luminous Matter
Dark Matter Does Not Follow Luminous Matter
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
The Simulation Hypothesis Has a Fatal Flaw
The Simulation Hypothesis Has a Fatal Flaw
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Why Causation Is a Primitive, Not an Illusion
Why Causation Is a Primitive, Not an Illusion
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
What Does Inertia Actually Mean?
What Does Inertia Actually Mean?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Stop Saying 'All Possible Paths'
Stop Saying 'All Possible Paths'
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Einstein Didn't Say Thermodynamics Needs a Box
Einstein Didn't Say Thermodynamics Needs a Box
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
The Third (Unsettling) Option. Not Determined. Not Random.
The Third (Unsettling) Option. Not Determined. Not Random.
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
"Maybe We Should Just Listen to Nature"
"Maybe We Should Just Listen to Nature"
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Not Globally True (Gödel's Unprovable Truths)
Not Globally True (Gödel's Unprovable Truths)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Newton Proved Why Stars Are Spheres
Newton Proved Why Stars Are Spheres
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Geometry Is Like Bell Inequalities
Geometry Is Like Bell Inequalities
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
What Really Is a Force?
What Really Is a Force?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
We never knew this until LLMs came along
We never knew this until LLMs came along
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
She Solved Gravitational Lensing With a Math Textbook
She Solved Gravitational Lensing With a Math Textbook
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
5 Numbers Describe All Cosmological Phenomena
5 Numbers Describe All Cosmological Phenomena
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
"Explain It to a 5 Year Old" Is a Cope
"Explain It to a 5 Year Old" Is a Cope
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
You Can't Vibe Your Way to Understanding
You Can't Vibe Your Way to Understanding
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
A Problem So Extreme It's Usually Ignored
A Problem So Extreme It's Usually Ignored
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Is There Any Quantum Mechanics at All?
Is There Any Quantum Mechanics at All?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Einstein Didn't Follow Mach Too Closely
Einstein Didn't Follow Mach Too Closely
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Published Math Is Full of Bugs — Here's Why It Doesn't Collapse
Published Math Is Full of Bugs — Here's Why It Doesn't Collapse
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
What Einstein and Heisenberg Agreed On
What Einstein and Heisenberg Agreed On
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Black Holes as Complex Spacetimes
Black Holes as Complex Spacetimes
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Gravitational Waves: Pond vs Storm
Gravitational Waves: Pond vs Storm
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
The "Inverse Problem" Of Dark Matter Is Insane
The "Inverse Problem" Of Dark Matter Is Insane
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
You Probably Don't Know What Energy Is
You Probably Don't Know What Energy Is
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
5 Reasons This Phrase Is Foolish
5 Reasons This Phrase Is Foolish
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
The Graviton Has a Tiny Mass
The Graviton Has a Tiny Mass
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
I Spent 10 Years Not Understanding Group Cohomology — Then It Became Trivial
I Spent 10 Years Not Understanding Group Cohomology — Then It Became Trivial
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Path Integrals Are Math, Not a Movie of Nature
Path Integrals Are Math, Not a Movie of Nature
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
The Black Hole Solution No One Has Found
The Black Hole Solution No One Has Found
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Do Instruments Create What They Observe?
Do Instruments Create What They Observe?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Everything Is Quantum (Including Gravity)
Everything Is Quantum (Including Gravity)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Axiomatization, Not Epistemology (Gödel)
Axiomatization, Not Epistemology (Gödel)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Coordinate Transformation Invariance
Coordinate Transformation Invariance
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Mathematical Trick or Underlying Reality?
Mathematical Trick or Underlying Reality?
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Hawking's Trick to Avoid the Singularity
Hawking's Trick to Avoid the Singularity
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Leaving Plato's Cave (Physics Gets Weirder)
Leaving Plato's Cave (Physics Gets Weirder)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Discrete Groups for Cognitive Frames
Discrete Groups for Cognitive Frames
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
The Exact Opposite of the Second Law
The Exact Opposite of the Second Law
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Gödel Handed Einstein a Universe With Time Travel
Gödel Handed Einstein a Universe With Time Travel
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
You Don't Know What You Don't Understand
You Don't Know What You Don't Understand
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
And That's All Just From One Year (Gödel)
And That's All Just From One Year (Gödel)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Scale Symmetry of Maxwell and Dirac
Scale Symmetry of Maxwell and Dirac
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
What Is Relationalism? (Leibniz vs Newton)
What Is Relationalism? (Leibniz vs Newton)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Paul Dirac Introduced the Core Idea in 1932
Paul Dirac Introduced the Core Idea in 1932
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Shrinking to Zero Without a Singularity
Shrinking to Zero Without a Singularity
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Einstein's Equation Is Empty Until You Tell Me This
Einstein's Equation Is Empty Until You Tell Me This
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago
Clean But Limited (Killing Vector Energy)
Clean But Limited (Killing Vector Energy)
Curt Jaimungal 1h ago