Category: Experiments interpretation
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Detecting nuclear explosions, "detecting" nuclear explosions...
The new are full of headlines on how CTBTO managed to detect the nuclear blast of the North Korea recent test. Through sensors - both seismic and even radioactivity sensors (really?) - the agency is said to be able to determine even the type of the device tested. (1, 2, 3) This is what technology…
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Quantum mechanics, Interpretations, Subjectivity
Quantum mechanics is a weird thing. Something like the last frontier of Science, it poses extreme questions which make us wonder about fundamental issues - like the role of measurement in what we see happening. It goes to the hear of the biggest problems of existence - i.e. what is a particle, what is mass…
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Dark Matter, wants, desires...
The Universe's highest-energy light could finally yield clues to the nature of the "dark matter" that makes up some 85% of the Universe's mass. The Fermi space telescope, designed to catch gamma rays, has seen hints of evidence for dark matter in high-energy gamma rays seen at the galaxy's centre. [1] The search for Dark Matter…
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Brain, Memory & Plasticity against materialism
Many people believe in the materialistic explanation of consciousness, which demands that all functions of our mind take place into our brain. And even more people believe that the very basic problem of memory is one of the first that have been "solved". Right? Wrong. Scientists do not know where exactly is memory located. To…
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