Tag: science
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Do lizards dream like us?
Do lizards dream like us? Researchers have confirmed that lizards exhibit two sleep states, just like humans, other mammals, and birds. They corroborated the conclusions of a 2016 study on the bearded dragon and conducted the same sleep investigation on another lizard, the Argentine tegu. Their findings nevertheless point out differences between species, which raises…
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String theory. Incompatibilities. Scientific progress.
In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June 2018, a team of string theorists from Harvard and Caltech published a conjecture which sounded revolutionary: String theory is said to be fundamentally incompatible with our current understanding of "dark energy" -- but only with "dark energy" can we explain the accelerated expansion of…
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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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(Scientific) Pressure.
Johannes Kepler, famed German astronomer and mathematician, first suggested in 1619 that pressure from sunlight could be responsible for a comet's tail always pointing away from the Sun, says study co-author and UBC Okanagan engineering professor Kenneth Chau. It wasn't until 1873 that James Clerk Maxwell predicted that this radiation pressure was due to the…
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Darwin and his garden. Socrates and Athens. Einstein at a desk.
While tropical plants played an important part in Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle, with hundreds of floral specimens collected, his own country garden yielded many of the answers needed to understand natural selection in plants. (1) Socrates generated the most elevated philosophy of his time without leaving his home town of Athens. Darwin came up…
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