Tag: Science Philosophy
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Frankenstein.
The story of Frankenstein is not just a horror story. It is the story of a scientist who converses only with his own conscience. And such a story can never have a happy ending. In the midst of Romanticism, the era when the love for the “logical” and the “scientific” were at their heights, a…
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Science: NOT explaining. Being: NO reason.
Several exploding stars have been found outside the cozy confines of galaxies, where most stars reside. These wayward supernovae are also weird because they exploded billions of years before their predicted detonations. Using archived observations from several telescopes, astronomers have developed a theory for where these doomed stars come from and how they arrived at…
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Saturn rings. Predicting models. And the (philosophical) uselessness of science. [Predicting models: An autoanaphorical lie]
Why do Saturn's rings look like that? New research from the University of Leicester finally confirms why the planet's iconic rings look the way they do -- and the answer might allow us to make predictions about other planetary rings in the universe. Saturn's rings are made of chunks of ice and rock that range…
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Solar flares. Catastrophology. Science as a Religion.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation generated on the sun’s surface, each one many times wider than our planet. They can cause disturbances in Earth’s atmosphere, disrupting GPS and radio signals. The disruptions can last for as long as the flares, anywhere from minutes to hours. That is exactly what happened on Tuesday, June…
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Science and Faith, two good friends...
If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. "It might be that somehow we have…
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