Rob Sheldon
Rob Sheldon offers a physics perspective on free will
Rob Sheldon: Researchers showed that the carbon state of the universe IS fine-tuned
Rob Sheldon: Are multiple measurements “closing in” on dark energy? Nope.
Rob Sheldon: That “sterile exoplanet ocean” paper is bunk!
Rob Sheldon: The real reason there is a crisis in cosmology
Rob Sheldon: Here’s why physicists are surprised by the universe’s increased expansion rate
Is space really “the final illusion”? Rob Sheldon comments
RNA is no longer “worthless junk”; today’s revelations “unthinkable 20 years ago”
Researchers: Neanderthals shared genes with woolly mammoths
Physicist Rob Sheldon on Paul Davies’ “life writes its own software” claim
Rob Sheldon responds to cosmologist Sean Carroll’s 19 True Facts of Cosmology
Physicist: Is Darwinian natural selection a “force of nature” like gravity?
What, the “single best idea anyone ever had” (philosopher Daniel Dennett on Darwin ) is now comparable to gravity? Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon would take issue with that. Yes, a psychologist seems to think Darwinian natural selection is indeed a force of nature like gravity: Natural selection, one of the fundamental processes of evolution, has something in common with gravity: A public relations problem. At one level of analysis, natural selection, like gravity, looks like a chump. When you’re looking up close at the tiny bits of stuff that go into making humans—the sequences of DNA that constitute the human genome—and how they came to be arranged in the manner that they are, natural selection doesn’t seem to have done Read More ›