Category: Science Dogmatism
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Absolute temperatures, efficiency > 100%, definitions, “limits”…
What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising in summer. On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is not possible to go below zero. Physicists…
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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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The greatest scientific discovery of 2013... WIMP!
Yes. We have seen it before. We give something a name and suddently we are able to "discover" it. WIMP (as in hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem) is the new "Higgs boson". As in... here. Or... here. And we used to laugh at people who believed in aether...
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Bionic hands, mind, brain, misunderstandings...
In one of this year’s bionic breakthroughs, a paralyzed woman carried out her own superhuman feat: Using an implanted brain chip, she controlled a robotic arm with her mind. [1] Scientists jumped to the roof out of joy. But what are we to celebrate here? The "with her mind" is the key sentence. Is it…
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