Category: Science
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Particle physics research, new particles, fifth force...
In a "breakthrough" for the field of particle physics, Professor of Physics Larry Hunter and colleagues at Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have established new limits on what scientists call "long-range spin-spin interactions" between atomic particles. Their observation would constitute the discovery of a "fifth force of nature" (in addition to the four…
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Cosmos inherent instability, Multiple universes, One...
Scientists say they may be able to determine the eventual fate of the cosmos as they probe the properties of the Higgs boson. A concept known as vacuum instability could result, billions of years from now, in a new universe opening up in the present one and replacing it, due to quantum fluctuations that will make…
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Prove science with... Faith?
How can one believe science has no limits? By the interpretation of Gödel's theorem, no section of human knowledge (e.g. arithmetic) can prove its consistency by... it self. But this implies that it may be proved by means of another section of human thought. So maybe the consistency of Science can be proved in... an un-scientific…
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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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Knowledge, Faith, Evidence, Truth...
What is knowledge, if not Faith in the truthness of a proposition? Based to "evidence" up to a point yes, but Faith nontheless. And what does "evidence" mean anyway? What we observe is what we observe. "Evidence" is an artificial human-made word which conveys no meaning whatsoever, besides the meaning we chose to give it. Evidence is…
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