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Stephen Hawking’s co-author: Hawking thought that his Brief History of Time was wrong

But doesn’t self-organization of the universe, as is now suggested, entail some sort of panpsychism?

Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Author News Comments(3)
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Astrophysicist: The Big Bang says nothing about how the cosmos came to be

Has Frank just given away the store to theists? The situation is exactly what we would expect if the cosmos is designed by a supernatural intelligence. We can learn how it works but the inventor exists and works at a higher level. We get only scattered, partial insights as to that.

Posted on March 11, 2023 Author News Comments(5)
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Theoretical astrophysicist re dark energy: The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero.

And, as Ethan Seigel goes on to say at Big Think, “Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.”

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Author News Comment(0)
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At IAI News: Time existed before the Big Bang

One problem is that if time existed before the Big Bang, it either came into existence separately from space or it is a past eternity. But a past eternity is, unfortunately, the dreaded Hilbert’s Hotel.

Posted on March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Author News Comments(22)
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Peter Woit: String theory is dead

But can something like string theory really die? Didn’t it ever only exist in order to keep smart people from grappling with reality?

Posted on February 27, 2023 Author News Comments(17)
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Massive early galaxies defy “prior understanding of the universe”

Tip: If all you want is to have your prior beliefs about the universe confirmed, don’t whack a huge telescope into space and code it to send back real-life actual data. Pound lecterns on behalf of manipulated interpretations of prior data instead.

Posted on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 Author News Comments(108)
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Has our model of the universe been falsified?

Well, anything that can’t be falsified by science methods can’t be verified that way either. Take your pick.

Posted on February 16, 2023 Author News Comments(12)
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Rob Sheldon responds to Sabine Hossenfelder’s loss of faith in science

Sabine says 40 years of lack of progress, with 40 years of wrong predictions is not normal, and we should not normalize it. (The field is losing graduate students, which means the end is nigh.)

Posted on February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Author News Comments(2)
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Sabine Hossenfelder has lost faith in science?

Maybe not altogether but Sabine Hossenfelder sure sounds unhappy. She asks in her vid intro: “Why do particle physicists constantly make wrong predictions?

Posted on February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 Author News Comments(22)
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At Big Think: Big Bang cosmology is becoming “a confusing tale” but relax…

Incidentally, high science never liked the Big Bang because of its theistic implications. But if a void replaces an unpopular theory, high science won’t like that either. Stay tuned.

Posted on February 6, 2023 Author News Comment(1)
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Physicists: Our universe might not be special, merely “probable”

With – in the real world – only one actual universe to go on, how do we determine what is “probable”?

Posted on January 29, 2023 Author News Comments(9)
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At Mind Matters News: Nobelist Roger Penrose talks about his impossible triangle

Penrose attempts a minimalist position when defending the reality of both mathematics and the mind in a world where many believe that only the physical exists.

Posted on January 16, 2023 Author News Comments(8)
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At Mind Matters News: A physicist rejects the idea that we live in a sim universe

Marcelo Gleiser worries that the claim that we are simulated beings with no free will reduces our ability to tackle the problems humanity faces.

Posted on January 16, 2023 Author News Comments(19)
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Sabine Hossenfelder on an anomaly that no one seems to be investigating

Is the Standard Model of cosmology wrong?

Posted on January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Author News Comment(1)
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At Big Think: The 4 fundamental meanings of “nothing” in science

Evidence from cosmological observations, coupled with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and research into the physics of the singularity out of which the universe began most strongly argues that matter and energy, space and time all came into existence from a true nothingness.

Posted on December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 Author Caspian Comment(0)

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