Physics

Evolutionist atheist physicist Sean Carroll suggests that infinite past time exists. Basically it is a move to deny God: if time has no beginning, the cosmos has no beginning, then there is no need of a Creator. Moreover infinite time gives more probabilistic resources to evolutionism.   Unfortunately an infinite past time is nonsense. See the following figure:     Scenario A shows the actual situation of the arrow of time, running from left to right, from today to the future. If this arrow is infinite then we would have no last day.   To scenario A we apply a shift according to a leftward vector of infinite length to get scenario B suggested by Carroll. Of course the arrow Read More ›

In his new book, “Social Physics,” Alex Pentland, a prominent data scientist at M.I.T., shows as much uncritical enthusiasm for prediction as Tucker, while making a case that we need a new science — social physics — that can make sense of all the digital bread crumbs, from call records to credit card transactions, that we leave as we navigate our daily life. (That the idea of social physics was once promoted by the positivist Auguste Comte, one scholar who would have warmed to the idea of Big Data, goes unmentioned.) What is social physics good for? It would allow us to detect and improve “idea flow” — the way ideas and behaviors travel through social networks. For example, Pentland Read More ›

As claimed here, he says: The simulation is really quite bad. According to the article, they used 12 billion pixels in a cube 350 million ly across, for a resolution of 153000 ly per pixel (without adaptive meshing). Now our galaxy is about 100,000 ly across, so we basically have one largish galaxy per pixel. With 100 billion galaxies in the universe, then at a minimum we would need to have 100 billion pixels to simulate for our “universe simulation” if we used “adaptive meshing” to skip over the vacuum in between, so right away you can tell we have only about 10% of the necessary computer resolution. But they didn’t even come close to that. According to the article Read More ›