Scientist, or Fundie Prot?

I was thinking . . .
(also somewhat continued from last post…)
If you look at the statistical argument for the end of the world coming, as given in the last post, you see a funny parallel between the scientist/gambler, and the rapture squawking fundamentalist Christian. Only scientists like to drag in “Mr. Billion” to make it [...]

Chance, Gambling, and the End of the World

I was thinking….
Postulate: the universe evolved through chance causes. The slight statistical “advantage” that particles have of slipping into matter as opposed to anti-matter made there “be” something material at the big bang. That same statistical percentage accounts for why the universe is “lumpy” and not a homogeneous heat death. Again, the sun is only [...]

somewhat partially continued from last post

I was thinking…
The more I think about the revolution in physics in terms of general relativity, the more I like the idea of changing the focus of quantum mechanics (see last post[s]). For example, we all remember the basic Newtonian formula for “gravity”: F=g*m*m/d^2. Translation: the force of gravity equals the product of the masses [...]

Somewhat continued from last posts

I was thinking . . .
More and more of what I wrote in my last post seems to be to be clearer in terms of the revolution that is required in modern physics. I guess I had a “theory” [not saying it is original - ed.] occur to me this afternoon. But, as usual, I [...]

Continued from last post

I was thinking. . . but ran out of space . . .
I have remarked, and am not alone in this, about the ideas behind relativity having their inception in Aristotle. It is clear from the argument that Aristotle gives, that relativity is a natural consequence. For Aristotle, and perhaps in fact, time is the [...]

Paul Dirac, and the almost but not quite

I was thinking . . . and I just finished a book of four lectures on quantum mechanics yesterday. . .
Dirac was a physicist whose writing seems very concerned with a mathematical explication of quantum field theory. But, like all modern physicists, he was keenly aware of the problem, and tension between, quantum physics and [...]

Against the false dichotomy of Subject/Object in Modern Physics

By request.
referring to my last post, there is a scale issue in modern science, and in human knowing in general. Man occupies the central place. Things that appear to him on this scale of himself include the dichotomy of subject and object, and there is a philosophical tension therein. But classical physics made use of [...]

Thoughts on Modern Physics (again, sigh)

I was thinking……
Sir James Jeans wrote a neat little book in the Forties called “Physics and Philosophy” that I just finished. Interesting. But there are a few points that I would like to bring out for those who will most likely never read this book. They bring about the questions of the possibility of a [...]