Retreated

Sorry I’ve been quiet on the blog for a few weeks. An unusually long gap, I think (although those of you following on instagram, twitter, Facebook and so forth have not noticed a gap). I’ve been hiding out at the Aspen Center for Physics for a while.

You’ve probably read things I’ve written about it here many times in past years, but if not, here’s a movie that I produced/directed/designed/etc about it some time back. (You can use the search bar upper right to find earlier posts mentioning Aspen, or click here.)

Anyway, I arrived and pretty much immediately got stuck into an interesting project, as I had an idea that I just had to pursue. I filled up a whole notebook with computations and mumblings about ideas, and eventually a narrative (and a nice set of results) has emerged. So I’ve been putting those into some shape. I hope to tell you about it all soon. You’ll be happy to know it involves black holes, entropy, thermodynamics, and quantum information
theory! (See a recent post.)

I’ve been busy with many other things, but I’ll spare you the details right now. Sadly, it did mean that my usual business of being a tourist and sitting on some of the other activity (workshops and so forth) at the Center did not really work out this year. I’ve mostly been sitting thinking and calculating. Accompanying images are some instagram/twitter shares about my pencils and notebooks.

A couple of announcements (to follow shortly) about some exciting national radio activity on Friday might interest you, so look out for those!

-cvj