Youtuber, adventure photographer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Co-author, The Battle of the Big Bang with Niayesh Afshordi (Chicago University Pres
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I assembled an amazing panel featuring physicist @DrBlitz @FrictionPhilo and Catholic expert Kevin nontradicath to investigate the miracle of the sun at Fatima. One of the miracles that converted Joe Schmid back to Catholicism. youtube.com/watch?v=fr9ahcoZ…
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To me, Rafael was a friend, a mentor, a colleague, a collaborator, a co-parent (officially for 4 of my PhD students, but in fact for many more). But he was much more …1/3
I am quite shocked and sad to learn that theoretical physicist Rafael Sorkin is no more. I was reading and learning more about his work on causal sets just a few days ago.
My sincere condolences to his family and friends. #physics #scicomm
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One of the best films Ive seen in a long time . It's funny, exciting, heart warming, creative, sheer perfection. youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYG…
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Does the history of the universe exactly repeat and can this solve the Boltzmann Brain Problem ? Sean Carroll explains all in our new video. youtube.com/watch?v=eZca3stQ…
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Mój nowy przekład, "Bitwa o Wielki Wybuch" już w sprzedaży! W tej niezwykłej książce Niayesh Afshordi (@nafshordi) i Phil Halper (@skydivephil) zestawiają konkurujące ze sobą teorie i hipotezy dotyczące początków Kosmosu. Szczerze polecam!
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Why do so many defenders of fine tuning ignore this possible solution? Is it some kind of conspiracy of silence? In our Copenhagen survey of physicists it was the 3rd most popular answer with 3 times more votes than design. youtube.com/watch?v=mOE_HAcT…
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Read more: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165326/…
Listen to Niayesh on our podcast: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/125…
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Dan Linford vs @Philip_Goff debate fine tuning youtube.com/watch?v=9JAQjFLs…
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Matthew A. Bell's new piece, “Science by majority,” looks at what the Big Mysteries Survey reveals about consensus and disagreement in physics.
byebyeuniverse.substack.com/…
ALT Heat map titled “Background shifts the dark-matter debate.” Rows compare survey respondents by background; columns list possible dark-matter explanations. Colored cells show how each group differs from the overall sample.
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Physicist Brian Keating misleads the public over our big mysteries survey in service of the religious right - and contradicts himself in the process. 6 of his errors exposed in new video youtube.com/watch?v=5zNae2o1…
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Premiering now, everything wrong with Panpsychism with a a panel of experts in philosophy of mind youtube.com/watch?v=jQzSqf2-…
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Can black-hole entropy predict testable departures from Kerr? New work with Shokoufe Faraji sets a theoretical target, not a detection.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.20421
Article: nafshordi.com/2026/07/21/do-…
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Out today: the audiobook of Battle of the Big Bang.
What came before the Big Bang?
Listen to the battle of ideas: inflation, bounces, cyclic universes, multiverses, black hole births, holography, and more.
rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/…
The #BigBang now has a voice.
The audiobook of #BattleoftheBigBang, with @skydivephil, is out next week — narrated by @iamnasmehdi
A guided tour of what may have happened before the Big Bang: bounces, time loops, holograms & more.
rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/…
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We tackle Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism , showing its many flaws with legendary philsopher Evan Fales in our latest episode of the SciPhi show youtube.com/watch?v=Xciy0Xyc…
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Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil) retweeted
The #BigBang now has a voice.
The audiobook of #BattleoftheBigBang, with @skydivephil, is out next week — narrated by @iamnasmehdi
A guided tour of what may have happened before the Big Bang: bounces, time loops, holograms & more.
rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/…
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Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil) retweeted
Should the fact the Big Bang was proposed by a religious thinker lead us to question its validity? | bit.ly/3SimEaB
Join science communicator Phil Halper @skydivephil, cosmologist Joseph Silk, and astrophysicist Priya Natarajan @SheerPriya to debate whether it is possible to escape personal bias and reach objective truth in cosmology. Hosted by Hilary Lawson.
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William Lane Craigs recent defence of the Kalam Argument and Big Bang Theology gets scrutinised by @nafshordi, Dan Linford and I youtube.com/watch?v=nBi-txYa…
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Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil) retweeted
Great News!!🎇 #BattleoftheBigBang (w/ @skydivephil) is back in
@WSJ — this time in the “Five Best: Cosmic Origins and Endings” feature selected by Emma Chapman, alongside Stephen Hawking, Steve Weinberg, Simon Singh, and @AstroKatie
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wsj.com/arts-culture/books/f…
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ALT A cosmic-themed collage showing five book covers selected for The Wall Street Journal’s “Five Best: Cosmic Origins and Endings,” arranged in a semicircle over a dark star-filled background. Battle of the Big Bang by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper appears in the center, slightly emphasized relative to the other covers.
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