The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
We use network models to explore how social factors contribute to the persistence and spread of false beliefs, even when there is strong evidence available that those beliefs lead to poor outcomes. We also discuss how those same social factors can be manipulated by industrial and political agents.
Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
Historical and conceptual issues related to the physics of nothing — from controversies about empty space in the seventeenth century to the strange features of the vacuum state in quantum field theory today.
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
The story of how ideas have moved from physics into financial modeling over the last century.
Mathematical Depth
Relativistic Causality
The Everett Papers Project
New Perspectives on the Hole Argument
The Philosophy of Howard Stein
Books in progress are described on the research page.