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Denyse O'Leary
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November 7, 2020
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Cosmology
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At Forbes: Hawking’s black hole paradox is NOT solved

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November 7, 2020
Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Ethan Siegel looks at the limitations: But we’re still a long way away from determining exactly where that information goes, and how it gets out of a black hole. Theorists disagree over the validity and soundness of many of the methods that are currently being employed to do these calculations, and no one has even a theoretical prediction for how this information should be encoded by an evaporating black hole, much less how to measure it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 30, 2020
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Cosmology
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Did the black hole paradox really come to an end? Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

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October 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Sheldon: Black Holes are a theoretical and empirical disaster. Given two possible assumptions to Schwarzschild’s solution of Einstein’s gravity equation, nearly everyone has taken the discontinuous, unphysical, "event-horizon" assumption leading to "Black Holes". One of the many predictions of BH, is that they cannot have magnetic fields, and they destroy anything that falls into them, converting all that matter into "Hawking radiation". What about all that data showing high density objects at the center of our galaxy and neighboring galaxies? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 23, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Physics
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Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is being labelled “anti-science”

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October 23, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Physics
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Also, let this sink in: Despite believing in determinism, Hossenfelder believes we should “decide” against a new particle collider… We can decide? On that account, to other naturalists, she is “anti-science.” Naturalism is weird like that. Eats its own. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 12, 2020
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Big Bang
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Physicist Rob Sheldon checks out astrophysicist Ethan Siegel for ridiculing Nobelist Roger Penrose

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October 12, 2020
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sheldon: The politicization of science evidently started before Ethan's graduate schooling, as Hoyle and his post-doc Chandra Wickramasinghe tell in their biographical writings. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Researcher: We need a new Theory of Everything, one with no “things”

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October 7, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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We’d have to guess that Stephen Wolfram’s attempt at a Theory of Everything didn’t solve all the problems. At any rate, by the time we get down to “a theory of every thing requires that one not start with a thing,” it’s not easy to distinguish science from Zen. But then maybe that’s the idea. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 18, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Rob Sheldon on the latest effort to pretend that nothing is wrong in cosmology

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September 18, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sheldon: This dashes yet another attempt to find something that the standard model could not explain. Surprisingly, this is what depresses particle theorists, who have yet to find anything new in the last 40 years, despite thousands of publications. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 11, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Physicist: The whole universe may be a neural network

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September 11, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Vanchurin: “I see no reason why this process should be confined to a particular length scale and so the claim is that everything that we see around us (e.g. particles, atoms, cells, observers, etc.) is the outcome of natural selection.” It doesn’t take very long for Darwinism to become indistinguishable from magic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 21, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Rob Sheldon on the latest claim that quantum mechanics imperils objectivity

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August 21, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sheldon: Actually the debate over "the meaning of QM" has been going on since 1935 when Einstein published his EPR paper. It is just that the wiggle-room is getting reduced as our straight-jacket is being cinched tighter. Read More ›