From LiveScience: “Time machines are unavoidable in our physical dimensional space-time,” David wrote in his paper. “Traversable wormholes imply time machines, and [the prediction of wormholes] spawned a number of follow-on research efforts on time machines.”
Physics
Scientific research which YECs and the mainstream can do for the benefit of society
YECs are very interested in mechanism of accelerated nuclear decay. Ironically, so is the mainstream in order to find better methods of dealing with nuclear waste instead of burying it underground (or worse putting it in containers and tossing it in the sea). Here is a breaking development published in a peer-reviewed article in 2013: Read More…
Admitting significant errors in my understanding of physics — speed of light theories
I had advocated Barry Setterfield’s decaying speed of light model as a possible mechanism for seeing distant starlight on shorter time scales than billions of years. At this time I need to appraise those who have followed my defense of Barry’s theory, that I no longer think Setterfield’s versions of the c-decay are workable as Read More…
Vodka! Can nuclear structure be affected by electrical, chemical, mechanical and biological means?
The answer appears to be yes (at least for electrical and mechanical means, don’t know for sure about chemical and biological means). A physics professor assigned our class term papers of our choosing. Our goal was to learn something new. I chose to explore the effects of electricity and chemistry on nuclear processes. I thought Read More…
Vodka! the return of the Aether (some help perhaps for YECs)
There is some benefit to ID if even parts of the YEC hypothesis are confirmed, the most notable example right now is Sanford and Cos work which was presented at the Cornell Conference. In a previous thread, I discussed the distant starlight problem is a thorn in the side of YEC. [the Vodka designation means Read More…
New biography of maverick Nicola Tesla
The one we quoted recently on non-physical phenomena. David Bowie played him in a film.
“Black holes do not exist”
That was the shocking headline in 2005 in prestigious scientific journal Nature: Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist. … Black holes are Read More…
Distant Starlight, the thorn in the side of YEC — can there be a middle ground?
There are many devout Jews and Christians who believe the universe is old. Unlike Darwinism, the presumption of an old universe has real support from science. Philosophically, something as grand and as powerful as the entire universe would reasonably seem to be eternal. Standard thermodynamics and the Big Bang hypothesis changed all that, and the Read More…
Protons smaller than formerly believed?
Used to be “unthinkable” to question the measurement, apparently.
Coffee!! The physicist’s spherical cow
It’s good enough for practical purposes in physics, not in dairy farming.
“One need not even be a theist to think physics is not going to replace metaphysics.”
Nobody has yet described how matter and energy make the ideas in dreams.
Tell your boss this one: “Space and time are different for me. YOU gotta adjust”
Can we draw that conclusion from an interesting recent study on elementary particles?
Cocktails! Astrophysics vs. Darwinist Paleontology
How can there be life, much less a Cambrian explosion, if the early Earth was an ice ball. Astrophysics tells us the Earth should be an ice ball, but why isn’t it? Astrophysics tells us that relative to today, the sun radiated 30% less energy in the time of the Early earth and 6% less Read More…
What physicists still don’t know about the Higgs boson
At least they do know it exists. That’s a start. But why is it so light?
The hole of the SLoT
Definition of the 2nd law of thermodynamics (SLoT). This law (in its statistical mechanics sense) states that an isolated system goes towards its more probable states (those more numerous). Since the disordered states are countless, while the ordered/organized ones are few, a closed system spontaneously goes towards disorder/disorganization (related to entropy). Difference between order and Read More…