Category: Modern science
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How much do you weight?
Scientists measure the weight of our galaxy using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite. It seems that the Milky Way weighs in at about 1.5 trillion solar masses, according to the latest measurements. Only a few percent of this is contributed by the approximately 200 billion stars in the Milky…
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Religion as the single foundation of Science
MCDSARE: 2020 International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education Religion as the single foundation of Science Author: Ph.D. Spyridon I. Kakos Abstract: For centuries, science was considered as something radically different from religion. Yet, the foundations of true science are deeply religious in nature. This paper seeks to…
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Life. Evolution. Quantum algorithms. A veil of obscurity disguised as light…
A scenario of artificial intelligence could see the emergence of circumstances in which models of simple organisms could be capable of experiencing the various phases of life in a controlled virtual environment. This is what has been designed by the QUTIS research group at the UPV/EHU’s Department of Physical Chemistry, but the scenario is that…
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“Cell phones do not cause cancer” and other Science-Money fairy tales. (as in “Smoking does not cause cancer”)
According to studies, cell phones do not cause cancer. (1) So reassuring. In the same way the old days science was not sure whether smoking caused cancer, or was even convinced that in some cases it was even beneficial! (2) On one side, there is the ridiculously slow pace at which science crawled towards the…
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Science: This beautiful whore! [From the Reproducibility crisis to Epstein connections]
In Greece (and many other countries) there is a saying: After going to the doctor, always go to a second one to get a second opinion! This public wisdom has been so much embedded in our everyday life that we do not even consider it as something special. And yet, this simple but highly intuitive…
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