Assuming this universe...
Accomplished physicists I have met or spoken with in the last four months professed little agreement over which parts of physics were set-in-stone and which parts simply largely-corroborated hypothese…
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"God is a mathematician."
The more advanced the topics I deal with in physics, the more stark I observe the divergence from philosophy and mathematics to be. While one seems to drill right down to the bedrock of all things exi…
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First, there are two simple axioms: that a particle can represent two states at the same time (superposition), i.e. 1 and 0, and that the information contained by a particle is destroyed the moment it…
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How many of you are familiar with the concept of a Google Hangout? Better yet, how many of you are web developers and are familiar with the concept of a Google Hangout? I assure you, the number in a…
What smells like a harmful thought?
A lot about our biology is intertwined with our culture. When such an association is encountered for the first time, it could sound interesting, intriguing even, but with time, it becomes an evident r…
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1. How often do we do things just because someone else we used to idolize did them in the past? When will we start doing things in the present such that they're the best things for us to do in th…
The Girl in Blue
How often have you seen that girl who makes you stop whatever you're doing, and just marshal all your faculties into attention so you can ensure you never, ever forget her face again? It happened…
Graphene the Ubiquitous
Every once in a while, a (revolutionary-in-hindsight) scientific discovery is made that's at first treated as an anomaly, and then verified. Once established as a credible find, it goes through a…
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I read about this development about a week ago, and I still don't know what I think about it. As a feat of engineering it is beyond par-excellence, and that is where I stop to take a few breaths..…
Hypothesis of unequal perception
Let’s say there are two people talking: X and Y. X has three kinds of knowledge: Basic, Pertinent, Abstracted. Y has only two kinds of knowledge: Basic, Pertinent. S1: If Y argues that X’s knowledge…
An experiment in propositional calculus
Q: Are truths simply objective reasons whose truth-values may or may not be verifiable? A: This question seems to possess a native paradox, but that simply arises from a logical error in the semanti…
A clock without a craftsman
Curiosity can be devastating on the pocket. Curiosity without complete awareness has the likelihood of turning fatal. At first, for example, there was nothing. Then, there was a book called The Feynm…