Tag: science
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Science "discovers" Higgs, as "nothing to do with progress"...
How many people have cheered about the "discovery" of the Higgs Boson? And how many would question my use of quotation marks when writing the word <discovery>? How many people are thrilled with CERN, while having absolutely no idea of the real and true mechanisms that govern the creation of science today? I have said…
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Russel, Gödel, Tesla etc and scientific censorship...
Not all great ideas are accepted with the same thrill that the "discovery" of the Higgs Boson was... There are times when a genius is too... genius to be completely ignored but whose ideas are too dangerous for some to accept "as is". In these cases the scientific community has developed good reflexes - the…
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Numbers - Do they really "exist" ?
One upon a time humans invented numbers. And since then they see numbers everywhere. But do numbers really "exist" ? Imagine that number do exist. What would that mean for the Universe? As Leibniz postulated (see La Monadologie), if we try to use numbers and fractions, we would always break our head on unsolved…
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Against alternative medicine... But why?
Many times we read articles about doctors critisizing "alternative medicine". However what we do not understand is that the very characterization of a practice as "alternative" automatically places it in this special place in our brain where we have put all the things which are interesting but "wrong". Why would you say that something, anything,…
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The weight of soul, the dogmatism of medicine...
Once upon a time, a physician conducted six experiments which showed that there is a stable loss of weight upon human death. The physician was Dr. Duncan "Om" MacDougall (c. 1866 – October 15, 1920). In March 1907, accounts of MacDougall's experiments were published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the medical journal…
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