CERN, the Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire, one of Europe’s greatest successes, proposes to make a new collider, the Future Circular Collider, with a circumference of up to 100 kilometers. The present largest accelerator at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is...
Someone in a philosophical forum, asked: ”Is ethics necessary?”
It goes without saying that ethics is necessary in any society to underlay law and order. But it does not stop there. Ethological studies show that intelligent animals have a sense...
It’s fashionable among pseudo-progressives to be rabidly anti-nuclear. Much better to burn coal, and frack rocks, they say, and they smoke. Who are those ingrates? Assuredly ignorant of the fact that all this coal they love so much was generated...
Science Is What Defines Our Species Best.
Science is industrial strength truth, and that works.
Science, well done, teaches wonder, and humility. We are all, or we should all be, scientists (those who are paid for that, therefore, ought to spare the...
EMOTIONS SPEAK, EMOTIONS TEACH, EMOTIONS LEARN
At altitude in the High Sierra Nevada, in the crisp winter night, I was contemplating the dazzling firmament, sparkling with stars, the Andromeda galaxy fully visible. Aldebaran, the twinkling red giant star, spoke to...
Are there science fiction technologies over the horizon? Yes. Let me present the CASIMIR FORCE. And suggest, with my characteristic generosity, how to make a machine from it.
To understand it one has to visualize this: there are no particles,...
The basic reasoning establishing the Big Bang is of primary school level. And yet, from recent observations, it is probably erroneous. I propose that the universe is 100 billion years old rather than 13.7 billion . Why do I...
Energy is the central concept in physics. Could it also be the central concept to determine truth?
High Energy Physics is, well, about high energy, as its name indicates. All of Quantum Field Theory consists into speculative manipulations about how...
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” allow civilization to function optimally (as they put all brains in parallel). The Greeks were rightly obsessed by them, especially Liberty, and various notions of Equality (several of which we have lost).
However, time and time again, in...
A FABLE FOR OUR PLUTOCRATIC AGE.
My translation, direct from Jean de La Fontaine, complete with the most important parts emboldened and underlined:
The logic of the strongest is always the best
We will show this presently
A lamb was quenching his thirst
In...
SHARED ERRORS BIND BETTER THAN TRUTH (Or how faith feeds intellectual fascism of the tribal type).
Aside from loving those who loved me, my life has been centered on a search for the ultimate nature of reality. That included history,...
”Information is physical”. Always. Of course. What else?
Yet, the mystery is far from dispelled, as we don’t know what “physical” is. We don’t know, what physics is, for sure. Some roll out the Quantum, and say:”here is physics: it...
MORE SUPER STORMS COMING.
The exponentially increasing CO2 causes ever accelerating warming. In the last decade, the oceans got in gear, and much of the excess heat in the lower atmosphere went there. Hence the stalling of temperature in the...
Up to twenty years ago, a reasonable opinion among scientists was that there might be just one solar system. Ours. Scientists like to project gravitas; having little green men all over didn’t look serious.
However, studying delicately the lights of...
It’s a Non-Aristotelian World:
Tyranosopher: Finite Logic should be called Non Aristotelian Logic. As I will show.
Simplicius Maximus, a contradictor: I have two objections to your finite math madness. First it makes no sense, and, secondly, even if it did,...
If we want to get real smart, we will have to let no reason unturned. Foundations of calculus have been debated for 23 centuries (from Archimedes to the 1960s’ Non Standard Analysis). I cut the Gordian knot in a...