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Hume Hearts Buddha, Picasso, And Einstein–But Not Nazis, Aquinas, Or Monotheism

Posted on July 30, 2015 by

Hume hearts Buddha. In Hume Studies (Volume 35, Number 1&2, 2009, pp. 5–28), Alison Gopnik has a fascinating essay–“Could David Hume Have Known about Buddhism?”–in which she writes the following: Hume’s argument in the Treatise, like Nagasena’s “chariot” argument, points to the … Continue reading →

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Does Time Exist? Einstein, Julian Barbour, Lee Smolin, Some Greek Philosophers–And The New Data From The NASA Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Posted on June 2, 2015 by

Julian Barbour, Albert Einstein, and Parmenides vs. Anaximander and Lee Smolin. Theoretical physicist, Julian Barbour, believes that what we experience as time passing actually consists of frozen moments of space-time in relation to one another (akin to a flip book). It … Continue reading →

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Neutrino Speed-of-Light Watch: Physicist Dave Goldberg Says Special Relativity Could Be Wrong. All Wrong.

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

The Los Angeles Times today quotes physicist Dave Goldberg as saying that, if neutrinos can indeed go faster than the speed of light (as some Italian researchers appear to have discovered), then Einstein’s famed theory of special relativity is wrong. All wrong. “Basically, all … Continue reading →

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Neutrino Speed-of-Light Watch: Stephen Hawking Refuses to Comment Yet

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Concerning the Italian researchers’ discovery that neutrinos may be exceeding the speed of light, this is at Reuters today: “It is premature to comment on this,” Professor Stephen Hawking, the world’s most well-known physicist, told Reuters. “Further experiments and clarifications … Continue reading →

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Neutrinos Faster than the Speed of Light: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Or, as the New York Times put it today, “Incredible claims require incredible evidence.” The reference is to the mind-blowing (apparent) discovery that there are neutrinos that can outpace the speed of light. Here’s more from the New York Times: According … Continue reading →

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Via Satellite, Tropical Storms Remind Me of Einstein’s Hair

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Just an observation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 . And:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            . Source for images: Wikipedia Commons via NASA and the World-Telegram.

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The CERN Large Hadron Collider: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

The New York Times today provides an interesting “history-in-a-nutshell” perspective on the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC): Particle colliders get their magic from Einstein’s equation of mass and energy. The more energy that these machines can pack into their little … Continue reading →

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Evil is the Shadow Cast in the Very Creation of the Universe?

Posted on September 29, 2009 by

Does God, by his (or her) very existence, necessarily cast an evil shadow? And does the creation, to even exist, cast an evil shadow? The youthful Einstein’s observation (echoing Thomas Aquinas) strikes me as very close to the gnostic idea that … Continue reading →

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What is Time?

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

Is time an illusion in the way that our perception of the earth at rest is an illusion? Below is an interesting and brief documentary on time (in three parts). Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: And here’s physicist Julian … Continue reading →

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