Science, virtue and morons

I was thinking yesterday evening about the reluctance of certain people to accept the role science plays in human understanding. But then, in contradistinction, I thought about how scientists are unable to keep their conclusions within their own realm of human knowing (trying to talk about God, morality, society and so forth). Then it [...]

Imaginary friends

Remember when you were a little kid? If you were like me and weren’t around a lot of other children (at least in spirit not around them) you spent a lot of time hiding in your imagination. My second son, Andy is like this. He has the “black-footed penguin of death” as I call it, [...]

Political Philosophy

Let’s open a can of worms. All modern political philosophy from Locke to Rousseau and others says that the governments exists by consent of the governed. That may or may not be the foundations for the regime in which we live – I suppose certain friends of mine would say no. Be that as it [...]

What’s in a Name??

Since my mathematico-physical writings hold no interest for anyone (at least that may pretend to read this), I decided to bring in science in a popularized way to the glacier. All week in the newspapers and on the internet there have been articles on the “death” of Pluto. On the Daily Southtown in Chicago the [...]

An attempt to clarify the previous post, but will probably obfuscate

If we have a non-expanding, rotating “universe” with a non-zero cosmological constant of sufficiently severe four dimensional geometry, the geodesic (or rather world-line of a particular body) describes a “circle”. This is not to say a body “orbits” continually. That misses the point. Orbits understand the closed loop not as a geodesic, but rather in [...]

Relativity relatively revisited

A little research into the writings of one of my heroes, Godel, has provided me with an interesting conundrum. I understand general relativity pretty well; well enough that I can manipulate the more simple solutions to the field equations. But I have a problem… or is it physics??
We all remember special relativity and the deductions [...]

Sidelights

It has been awhile since I mentioned Kurt Godel in this on-again off-again excuse for a blog. I was again pondering incompleteness as a theorem in reference to human understanding and the myth of artificial intelligence. Since all computers (machines) work by a finite set of axioms (on-offs or 0 and 1s in binary code) [...]

musings

I’m another year older today. It always makes me muse on my life around this time. I was thinking about the proverbial ‘where am I in life’ question, and wondering if this is where I saw myself when I graduated high school, or college. Then I realized: I didn’t see myself really anywhere – and [...]