I was thinking. . .
Long story short I was stuck someplace with little to do but doodle on someone else’s sticky notes, an idea occurred to me, and I sketched an outline. It would be called, grandly:
Unity in Truth
or
How All Human Knowledge is Related
It breaks down into sections like this:
I) The Hierarchy of knowledge:
A) Reductionist [...]
I was thinking. . .
While doing my lunchtime reading I stumbled across a lovely little book with BBC interviews of physicists about “string theory”. Personally, with the minimal knowledge I have of it, I find it very compelling. The mathematics is way beyond me, but the basic ideas I find interesting (aside – I plan [...]
I was thinking… no musing….
Why is it in our culture that people make a big deal out of turning a certain age? Does it really make a difference whether one is forty or thirty-nine? But they sell those black balloons, and cards that only ‘celebrate’ the tens. I was wondering, why not use numbers that [...]
The basic problem in modern physics is that these two pillars are incompatible. If you try to combine gravity with quantum mechanics, you find that you get nonesense from a mathematical point of view. You write down formulae which ought to be quantum gravitational formulae and you get all kinds of infinities. It’s pretty discomforting [...]
I was thinking…
While some of us pretend to be philosophers, mathematicians, and so forth (when anyone who knows me knows that I am a blue collar working stiff) there seems to be three points I’d like to keep in mind in my long winded inquiries here:
1) All true things, insofar as they are true, are [...]
I was thinking…
There has been this ‘great’ debate recently on evolution and so-called intelligent design. While the crux of many well-meaning ‘Christian’ arguments against atheist evolution (whatever that means) is based on the appeal to the extraordinary circumstances that would have to be present in order for specification to take place (and for life in [...]
I was thinking. . .
Modern science cannot escape the problem of causality in the creation of the universe. There are three possible solutions to the “origin” of the universe commonly proposed. First, the universe goes back to a certain point in time, and that is the beginning (the big bang et al.). Second, the universe [...]
