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Cosmology Information Intelligent Design Physics

Rob Sheldon weighs in on the fundamental building blocks of nature – particles, fields, or …

Sheldon: It is curious that the author of this Aeon article has frozen Wheeler at his second stage, neglecting to mention his final conclusion.

Posted on February 8, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Max Planck on the force behind the universe

A friend now writes to remind us that physics great Max Planck had quite immaterial views on the nature of the universe.

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 Author News Comment(0)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

At Aeon: To understand fundamental building blocks of nature, one must think beyond physics

In a debate with four other philosophers of physics, Sebens argued that there are no particles, everything is fields.

Posted on February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 Author News Comments(5)
Cosmology Fine tuning Intelligent Design

At Closer to Truth: Is the universe fine-tuned for life and mind? Well-known scientists respond

Calvert: This is an interesting set of interviews of cosmologists as they uniformly agree that there is essentially no known evidence that supports chance and/or necessity as the best explanation for the fine tuning of the universe for life.

Posted on February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Origin Of Life Physics

Avi Loeb suggests that the design of life might have been a black hole. Michael Egnor responds

Michael Egnor: Both an intelligent designer (assuming we’re talking about God) and a black hole are supernatural, in the sense that they are not objects in the natural world. This may not surprise you about God, but it is also true of black holes.

Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Closer to Truth: Are there really extra dimensions?

One can’t help wondering what the notion of many additional dimensions is supposed to do. … By now, you probably get the picture. The side door to “Anything we want to believe is true.”

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Author News Comments(7)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Rob Sheldon on the recent dark matter claims

Those [theories] that haven’t been disproven yet are the ones that are the least lumpy. Let’s just say that the data are consistent with there being no dark matter lumps at all.

Posted on January 16, 2021 Author News Comments(2)
Cosmology Physics

Researchers: Less dark matter than thought?

What if there isn’t any? Maybe we are pursing a phantom? Just a thought.

Posted on January 14, 2021 Author News Comments(3)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Reality is looming down on supersymmetry

In pop science media, supersymmetry has been one of the ideas that lead to support for a multiverse and all that. So, if it’s in trouble…

Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Breakthrough in measuring protons does not deliver the hoped-for new physics

Diminishing hope for new physics? That isn’t the triumphant scientism we were told to expect.

Posted on January 9, 2021 Author News Comments(4)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Researchers: Black holes are collapsed universes

Robitzski: “It suggests our entire universe might just look like any other tiny black hole bubble to an outside observer.”

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Author News Comments(9)
Cosmology Physics

There is more than one kind of dark energy?

Paul Sutter: By allowing for multiple quantum fields to generate dark energy, it might be possible for string theory to still be relevant in our universe, as these models may not be stuck in the “swampland.”

Posted on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Cosmology Intelligent Design

Jonathan Bartlett on what’s wrong with claims that we live in a sim universe

Bartlett: Even if you could make a perfect simulation of reality, it would have to be a smaller reality than what you’re simulating it with.

Posted on January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 Author News Comments(8)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Multiverse Physics

Peter Woit, whom we sometimes follow because he is fun, looks back on string theory

He doesn’t seem to get the fact that string theory was a religious movement that was bound to end badly. The most distressing victim is science. But then that was well before the war on math, wasn’t it?

Posted on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 Author News Comments(3)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Will black holes really break physics?

Physicist: You see, the black hole isn’t just eating matter and belching radiation, it is reversing entropy. This shouldn’t be possible.

Posted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 Author News Comments(4)

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