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The Absent Answer

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

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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.

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.

The Absent Answer

Featured ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." Albert Einstein

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