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Category Archives: 2 Being and Nothingness
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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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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The Languages of Physics
A recent subject (question?) posted on a theoretical Physics forum asks, “What happens when one of a pair of entangled particles crosses an event-horizon?” This presumably simple question assumes agreement on a) what is an entangled particle?, b. what is … Continue reading
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A fundamental fallacy in modern physics
In an article on the website Space.com, (The site is subtitled, “The open questions at the boundary between physics and metaphysics”) regarding Einstein’s Theories of Relativity, the following section stirred up a serious reaction. The article is by the science … Continue reading
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Starting fresh, from an earlier time
The Wikipedia entry for Maxwell’s Equations, after explaining that these are only close approximations (very close!), goes on to make the following point. “Since the mid-20th century, it has been understood that Maxwell’s equations are not exact but are a … Continue reading
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Gustav Mie and the simple universe
The second decade of the 20th century, 1909 to 1919, was a remarkable period in the development of physics and cosmology. In particular, three intellectual giants emerged and published works that would result in profound changes in how we view … Continue reading
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imagine darkness: the making of the simple universe
Publication notice: I’m pleased today, February 17, to announce the publication of imagine darkness: the making of the simple universe, in a paperback edition. The book is the continuation and expansion of the model I first sketched out in the … Continue reading
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What (exactly) is energy?
What is energy? A recent post on a LinkedIn web discussion poses this question, with conditions. It rules out, wisely, simple mathematical expressions and the like, along with the typical circular, non-realistic explanations you get about gravity or magnetism or … Continue reading
Words and Reality
Words and Reality A Look at Milo Wolff’s “Schrödinger’s Universe” (2008) Four anti-definitions to ponder: 1. Space has no substance hence no reality in and of itself. What is called space is an absence of substance. If it is designated … Continue reading