Category: Theories
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Explaining. Theories. Ideas dying.
A research team has developed a new theory that can predict the movement of an animal's sensory organs -- such as eyes, ears and nose -- while searching for something vital to its life. (1) Explaining things with theories. But theories always come after life. Theories always come after death. They are lingering in the…
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Non-water. Inside the dead forest.
Led by Professors Raffaele Mezzenga and Ehud Landau, a group of physicists and chemists from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have identified an unusual way to prevent water from forming ice crystals, so even at extreme sub-zero temperatures it retains the amorphous characteristics of a liquid. In a first step, the researchers designed and…
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Philosophical dogmatism inhibiting the anti-Copernican interpretation of the Michelson Morley experiment
Author: Spyridon Kakos, phD, National Technical University of Athens Goal of the paper The goal of this paper is to investigate scientific assumptions and dogmas related to the mainstream interpretation of the Michelson Morley experiment. The current interpretation denies the possibility of a motionless Earth or the existence of ether, in the context of relativity…
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On the untrustworthiness of axiomatic-founded science
On the untrustworthiness of axiomatic-founded science Spyridon Kakos1, Athens, Greece, July 2020 1 phD, National Technical University of Athens Table of Contents Abstract Περίληψις (Summary in Greek) 1. INTRODUCTION 2. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 3. RESEARCH METHODS 4. FINDINGS 4.1 Axioms: From Euclid to quantum physics 4.1.1 The case of the 5th axiom 4.1.2 Logic…
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"Our theoretical understanding"...
"Improvements of our theoretical understanding of the material world..." This is the beginning of a phD thesis in a big university in the US. (Princeton, ProQuest number 22587372) Funny. We started from a real knowledge of the cosmos. By living in it. Then we moved on to understanding it. While standing aside. We seek knowledge.…
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