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Author Archives: Charles Scurlock
The truth is simple
The truth is simple. Finding it is complicated. In January 2017 the physicist Frank Wilczek lectured at Arizona State University on the subject “The Materiality of Vacuum,” in a series introduced by Lawrence Krauss, famous for the theory that “everything … Continue reading
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The errors of our ways
One of the small pleasures of the mind is the discovery, in an unexpected place, in another discipline, even, of support for a concept that you might have thought original, but, it turns out had been anticipated 500 years before. … Continue reading
The Accidental Universe (Apologies to Alan Lightman°)
*Alan Lightman’s book with this title, a collection of thoughtful essays on the universe was published in 2013. In it he lays out an assortment of ways of looking at and interpreting the universe, some according to the standard models … Continue reading
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New eBook publication notice
After avoiding the challenge for almost a year, I’m happy to announce that both of my 2016 books, “the picnic at the edge of the universe,” and “imagine darkness,” have now been published as epub documents and are now available … Continue reading
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What we’ve learned, so far
The first two paragraphs of post number 1 of this blog, in June of 2011, laid out a set of goals for this publication. “The aim of this blog is to be the home of enquiries of a particular type, … Continue reading
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In the beginning was energy
“….during the 1820s, when explaining magnetism, Michael Faraday inferred a field filling space and transmitting that force. Faraday conjectured that ultimately, all forces unified into one. In the early 1870s, James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism as effects of … Continue reading
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The Missing Sentence in Einstein’s General Relativity
“Many—perhaps most—of the great issues of science are qualitative, not quantitative, even in physics and chemistry. Equations and measurements are useful when and only when they are related to proof; but proof or disproof comes first and is in fact … Continue reading
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Is “something” out there?
In 2012, the well-known science writer Jim Holt produced a fascinating book titled “Why does the world exist.” In it he explores what some philosophers have called the prime question of philosophy, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Now, … Continue reading
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Time Dilation Revisited
In his explanation of time dilation, Einstein explains the principal in this way: (from: The Foundation of the Generalized Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein, 1916) (parenthetical inserts by the author, cs) “In order to see this we suppose that two similarly … Continue reading
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Daddy, where did I come from? (Chapter One)
A question in a theoretical physics forum on the web. “Are there any new models of the universe since the standard models arose in the last century?” No one knew of any except for those that get called get called crackpot … Continue reading
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