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Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am" ... Who am I? My stomach is a meat grinder, my heart is a blood pump, my kidneys are filters, my brain is a computer, etc. Where am I? ---

What is spacetime? Everything in SRT, GRT and quantum mechanics is done in so-called "space-time", which is a kind of virtual 4D geometry. But if SRT is correct and if QM is the basis for successful modern technology, then space-time cannot be a virtual, abstract structure. Space-time must...

The Butterfly Effect The butterfly effect is that something as small as a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can end up causing a tornado in Texas Why can a butterfly flapping its wings cause a tornado? Because the butterfly effect belongs to the micro quantum world. Micro quantum world is...

Brief EM history (for dummies) Maxwell's ‘Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism’ was published in 1873. His 1,000-page book contained 20 equations. To visualize and understand own mathematical EM ideas , he used mechanical analogies: balls, bearings, hooks. ... Hertz (1888) freed EM theory...

We have successful quantum mechanics, we don't have quantum philosophy. "There’s no philosophy in quantum mechanics" /March 18, 2014 by Matthew Rave/ ----. The conventional wisdom among people who know a little bit of quantum mechanics is that quantum mechanics is weird. The conventional wisdom...

23 May 2024. Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time ---- For the first time in the history of astronomy, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have witnessed the birth of three of the universe's absolute earliest galaxies, somewhere between 13.3 and 13.4 billion years...

Immortality Is Possible—We Just Have to Overcome One Stubborn Law of Physics Our bodies naturally experience more and more cellular chaos over time. What if we could stop it? BY SUSAN LAHEY PUBLISHED: APR 5, 2024 ----- “So why is the second law of thermodynamics the probable cause of aging? It...

Black holes and galaxies formations. ----- " . . . supermassive black holes with the mass of millions or billions of Suns are assumed to reside in the cores of most galaxies, and they play a key role in current models of how galaxies have formed over the past billions of years."...

CERN Wants to Build a Bigger, Badder Particle Collider /By: John Perritano/ https://science.howstuffworks.com/cern-wants-to-build-bigger-badder-particle-collider.htm ----- Cern aims to build €22bn collider to unlock secrets of universe. The first accelerator based on the principle of multiple...

13 March 2024. Sleeping black hole is way more massive than it should be The James Webb Space Telescope has found an unusual galaxy in the early universe with a black hole almost half the mass of the galaxy itself, raising questions about how it formed /By Jonathan O’Callaghan/ ------ A black...

What Physicists Have Been Missing An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics. I think it’s wrong. But I may be too. BY SABINE HOSSENFELDER February 2, 2024 ------- But today, the foundations of physics are a sleepy place. We’re still chewing on the same problems that we had a...

— NOVEMBER 18, 2019 Is the universe controlled by gigantic structures? The idea that celestial objects exist within utterly immense cosmic structures is becoming inescapable. / Robby Berman / ----- New findings in astronomy are making some astronomers doubt our basic model of the universe...

What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding Universe FEB 05, 2024. Chelsea Gohd. What Exactly is Dark Energy? Right now, dark energy is just the name that astronomers gave to the mysterious "something" that is causing the universe to expand at an accelerated rate. Dark energy has...

8 August 2023. From time crystals to wormholes: When is a quantum simulation real? Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure various exotic phenomena and are claiming that their creations are truly real. The work is forcing us to ask challenging questions about the nature of quantum...

July 20th, 2023. Does Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?: A Theoretical Physicist Explains --- It all began, she [Sabine Hossenfelder] says, when a young man posed to her the following question: “A shaman told me that my grandmother is still alive...

13 July 2023. The minuscule fluctuations of seemingly empty space can be controlled just enough to make the building blocks of a new type of computer. /By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan/ ---- Empty space is not actually empty – it is filled with tiny flickers of quantum fields. Boosting those...

Archimedes and Modern Science ----- "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." /Archimedes/ -- Science is the logical exposition of a system. Science is systematized knowledge. Science without a system is chaos. Therefore, "the Standard Model...

HARD SCIENCE — MARCH 16, 2023 At light speed, Einstein’s equations break down and nothing makes sense --- The relationship of light to time is nonintuitive. Mathematical limits allow us to figure out what happens to photons at the exact speed of light where Einstein’s equations break down. At...

Quantum Physics Lets Researchers See "Things" Without Looking At Them on 5/24/2023 in Physics, Science As a general rule, if you want sight, you need light. You’re only reading this right now thanks to the light from your screen being beamed onto your retinas, converted into electrical signals...

The Martians of Budapest. Jul 24, 2020 “There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-martians-of-budapest-618d62612d3d