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Denyse O'Leary
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April 18, 2021
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Michael Egnor to Jerry Coyne: Why the universe itself can’t be the most fundamental thing

Denyse O'Leary
April 18, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Egnor: The cause of the universe must be something other than the universe itself and must have the power to cause things independently of the laws of nature. That is what all men call God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 16, 2021
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Cosmology, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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At Popular Mechanics: The universe is a “machine that keeps learning”

Denyse O'Leary
April 16, 2021
Cosmology, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
It sounds as though some would like to hold onto the name of Darwinism while — in reality — adopting panpsychism. That would be consistent with other trends we've noted. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 12, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Is a new “muon” finding evidence for a fifth force of nature? Rob Sheldon weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
April 12, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: I hate to disappoint you, but most of my gut reaction is negative... In fact, this 40-year stasis in particle physics has meant that two generations of graduate students have never had a successful breakthrough experiment, or confirmed a new theory. The field, as Sabine Hossenfelder reminds everyone, is littered with wrong papers. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 7, 2021
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Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Stan Robertson’s paper on black holes is free for download

Denyse O'Leary
April 7, 2021
Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Physics
One factor that one needn’t be a physicist to see is that black holes became a “thing” in popular culture, in a way that “red dwarfs” and “white dwarfs” never did. No one says that red dwarfs, for example, are a gateway to another universe. That sort of thing may affect people’s willingness to evaluate the evidence base critically. Cf Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 6, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon takes aim at black holes: How much is really known?

Denyse O'Leary
April 6, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
It is most unfortunate that both scientists themselves and the popular press discuss black holes (bh) as if they are (a) a scientifically defined object; and, (b) an experimentally observed one. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 5, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks, Should Stephen Hawking have won the Nobel? Rob Sheldon weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
April 5, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Rob Sheldon: Hawking did not get the Nobel, however, because he hung his hopes on the radiation emitted by BH--the so-called "Hawking radiation". And it was never observed. Sabine tries to explain why. But one argument that Sabine doesn't make, is that Hawking radiation may never have been observed because BH are themselves never observed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 20, 2021
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Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: “Vast reservoir” of complex molecules found in cold cloud, not dying stars, as expected

Denyse O'Leary
March 20, 2021
Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Researcher: "It's like going into a boutique shop and just browsing the inventory on the front-end without ever knowing there was a back room. We've been collecting little molecules for 50 years or so and now we have discovered there's a back door. When we opened that door and looked in, we found this giant warehouse of molecules and chemistry that we did not expect," said McGuire. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 13, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder reassures us that Schrodinger’s cat is still not dead

Denyse O'Leary
March 13, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Hossenfelder: It’s no secret that I myself am signed up to superdeterminism, which means that the measurement outcome is partly determined by the measurement settings. In this case, the cat may start out in a superposition, but by the time you measure it, it has reached the state which you actually observe. So, there is no sudden collapse in superdeterminism, it’s a smooth, deterministic, and local process. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Ethan Siegel: Failure to replicate a dark matter experiment is “an incredible success” for the scientific method

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Siegel offers an inside look at the details. While the finding is doubtless a success for the scientific method, it must be frustrating for those physicists who need dark matter to exist in order to make cosmology understandable — but can’t find any. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 21, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she thinks that the computer sim universe is pseudoscience

Denyse O'Leary
February 21, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
Hossenfelder: You can approximate the laws that we know with a computer simulation – we do this all the time – but if that was how nature actually worked, we could see the difference. Indeed, physicists have looked for signs that natural laws really proceed step by step, like in a computer code, but their search has come up empty handed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 8, 2021
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Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon weighs in on the fundamental building blocks of nature – particles, fields, or …

Denyse O'Leary
February 8, 2021
Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: It is curious that the author of this Aeon article has frozen Wheeler at his second stage, neglecting to mention his final conclusion. Read More ›