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The Absent Answer

Reflections on life. Mercifully brief. (The reflections, not the life.)

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Author: Joanna Baker

Joanna's first murder mystery novel was reviewed as "outstanding' in The Age, Melbourne. Her current book, The Slipping Place, is a multi-layered page-turning murder mystery, set in Hobart, available in all Australian bookshops and online. Learn more at joannabakerauthor.com. "I'm a sixth-generation Tasmanian, deeply attached to the place. I'm also deeply attached to murder mysteries of all kinds."

The universe begins exploring itself

July 7, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

A collection of atoms, made in stars, begins writing music

The hollow fabric

June 30, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Every moment you care to define is a close-packed shelf of finer, and yet finer ones without end.

The Impossible

June 14, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Why are we so fascinated by the locked room mystery? Maybe Les Murray had an answer.

The mystified and the credulous

June 7, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Robert Dessaix has a wicked feeling.

Infinite Regress

June 7, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

One fundamental problem with the nature of logic.

Everyday Mysteries and Larger Ones

June 1, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

There are things we should know, there is something we should be seeing.

The Socrates Trap

May 15, 2025June 6, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

It's often called a paradox. If only it were that harmless.

Incompleteness

May 8, 2025July 28, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

There will always be facts that cannot be proved. There can be no mathematical theory of everything.

Miracles and Laws

May 1, 2025June 5, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Why should the universe obey laws? Why should mathematics be the same everywhere for all time?

If the Answer is Absent, what is the question?

April 22, 2025June 5, 2025 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Wittgenstein and The Question that has no answer.

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