Notes
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Can Communion Be Measured?
From a seed to an index, fifteen years later. On the Multi-Faith Economy Index launched by Consulus in London, and on the conditions under which a relational good can be made visible without being turned into a performance.
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Thinking about Mathematics
OpenAI has released several hundred machine-generated mathematical manuscripts. A note on the difference between proving and explaining, and on what it implies for the question whether mathematical concepts are discovered.
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Seeing with the Weak Interaction
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for IceCube, a telescope that observes the sky through neutrinos. A note on what it means to see with an interaction other than the electromagnetic one.
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T-Duality and the Uncertainty Relations
String theory is said to contain a shortest length because of T-duality. The ways of reading that claim follow, almost one by one, the ways of reading the uncertainty relations between position and momentum.
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What Dirac's Delta Was Introduced For
A note on when and how the delta function was introduced, and on how Dirac himself describes it in the 1927 paper and in the 1930 book.
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Reflections on AI Ethics from Bangkok
At the end of a panel, a Buddhist monk declined the question we had spent an hour on. What he showed me was the frame itself — and that a project can be universal in its words and local in its structure.
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Notes from ICCGC-WFB 2026, Bangkok
Four days at an interfaith conference in Bangkok: what it means that traditions which will never agree on first principles converge, reliably, at the level of practice.
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Salad, Stew, Cake
A week in Singapore, three ways of putting different things together, and whether categories built to describe disciplines transfer to ways of life.
