“My (Nobel nominated) college professor used to ask a rhetorical question in his thermo class, ‘what is the entropy change of a cow after the butcher put a 22 calibre bullet through the brain?'”
Physics
2nd Law of Thermodynamics — an argument Creationists and ID Proponents should NOT use
ID proponents and creationists should not use the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to support ID. Appropriate for Independence Day in the USA is my declaration of independence and disavowal of 2nd Law arguments in support of ID and creation theory. Any student of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics will likely find Granville Sewell’s argument and similar Read More…
Official: It’s a Higgs boson-like particle
A key issue is that – by their own standards, however they came to set them – they cannot quite claim what they would like to.
We have need of physics beyond Standard Model …
” … because the only SM is not sufficient to explain our universe” (at mass 125 GeV).
God Particle: “Proof” now changed to “Evidence”
“This may be the first time in history that a media headline about particle physics is incorrectly pessimistic … “
Breaking: God particle “all but proven” to exist – not yet discovery though
This is a leak. Announcement was supposed to be Friday.
Fri nite frite: You think you know hot from not? Consider the Big Bang soup
RHIC’s physicists were seeking to duplicate the conditions that existed just an instant after the big bang that kicked off the universe’s expansion 13.7 billion years ago. (when gluons come unglued).
Coffee!! When nerds go nuts, they spend hours studying falling slinkies
The bottom is temporarily motionless when falling off a tall building.
Big Bang: Were we wrong about the cosmic microwave background?
But if it turns out to be bad news, it is bad news in the real world. At least it is not frustrating, science-stopping nonsense about multiverses.
Standard Model of physics in trouble?
Or is it just a slow news day in June?
Physicists attack philosophy when they are no longer doing good physics
Multiverse, etc., proponents rattle on against philosophy – principally because philosophers can easily see through their pretenses by simple acts of logic.
Freedom or determinism: Thought experiment in producing unlimited randomness
“The scientists’ calculations showed that the quantum correlation between the bits can be so strong that they cannot be correlated with anything existing previously.”
Mathematician Granville Sewell denied right to respond to rebuttals in journal
Once again, Darwinism’s questionable relationship to thermodynamics is the issue.
Memo to social sciences: Get over your physics envy. Please.
” Social scientists would be better off doing what they do best: thinking deeply about what prompts human beings to behave the way they do.”
Would Wolfgang Pauli have liked the Biologic Institute?
“He had heard these arguments before and wasn’t convinced by them. Pauli wanted to see calculated probabilities for large-scale evolution.”