Last post of January 2026: What’s up with Harvard?
It’s Friday and I want to ask a question. Why didn’t I have professors who presented remarkable ideas to their students and to the world? Lousy school, dumb instructors, or truly stupid students.
I am not sure if you recall the comet that zipped through our obscure cluster of planets a few months ago. I spotted an article titled “What If 3I/ATLAS Is AI/ATLAS? Harvard Professor Unveils 18 Anomalies of Interstellar Object.” This Harvard expert continues to suggest that the comet named 3I/Atlas is something more than a chunk of stuff from somewhere out there. Among the possibilities this esteemed Harvard professors has offered now that the 3I/Atlas object is far away include chemical fingerprints and mini jets. The big idea, however, seems to be that this professor suggests that the 3I/Atlas is a manifestation of artificial intelligence. Yeah, okay.
An academic luminary has concluded that angels, AI robots, and Albert Einstein have come together in one world changing idea: The thruple will have a child who combines the best of each parent. It will be a significant event because the baby will be able to attend a certain prestigious university for free and then become a professor. Thanks, Venice.ai.
But Avi Loeb has just been one-upped by another Harvardoid. This esteemed world renowned expert, Dr. Michael Guillen, is a former Harvard Harvardoid. “Former Harvard Physicist Claims He’s Found Heaven Exactly Like in the Bible” reports:
Dr. Michael Guillen, a former Harvard physics professor, claims he’s discovered Heaven’s exact location at the Cosmic horizon.
Okay, Dr. Guillen. You nailed it. Are you still puzzled? The write up explains:
According to the Bible, the lowest level of Heaven is Earth’s atmosphere. The mid-level heaven is outer space. The highest-level heaven is what we’re talking about: It’s where God dwells.” He suggests that anything situated past the Cosmic Horizon possesses extraordinary characteristics, operating beyond the constraints of space-time as humans comprehend it. According to him, these attributes align perfectly with biblical accounts of Heaven from antiquity. Not only does it remain perpetually “up, but it’s unreachable by mortal beings.
Therefore, he has found Heaven.
Let’s think about this Harvard thing. Why is Harvard woven into click bait like AI comets and finding Heaven?
I have a theory.
My view is that some people want to attract attention. Doing substantive research, writing papers, and generating meaningful feedback is slow. Harvard-tinged types want to speed up the process. I call this ego accelerationism. Instead of doing one’s job and plugging along, something magnetic has to be cooked up and then marketed.
Harvard appears to be a source of interesting ideas about how to market. I do want to point out that this fine university used its deep knowledge resources to Jeffrey Epstein. Someone at a law enforcement conference mentioned that Mr. Epstein had an office or a personal workspace at Harvard. And why not? He donated money to some whiz bang project to figure out evolutionary dynamics. Sound familiar?
When one talks about a university education today, is it required to know about AI comets, where Heaven is, and the administrative judgment of having a brilliant thinker like Jeffrey Epstein on campus? Sure, absolutely.
Yikes. I think I know the answer. Yikes.
Stephen E Arnold, January 30, 2026