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Shaking Hands with Our Future: Do We Live in The Matrix?
Found : Shaking Hands with Our Future: Do We Live in The Matrix? Dr. George Ryazanov is a Russian physicist with a strong interest in unifying a vision of physics and metaphysics in a grand synthesis he calls the syncretic … Continue reading
The oscillating universe theory rides again
Found : The oscillating universe theory rides again BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Universe 'child of previous one' A joint UK-US team has put forward an alternative theory of cosmic evolution. It proposes that the Universe undergoes cycles of "Big … Continue reading
Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution
Found : Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago, may soon help solve seemingly unrelated problems in particle physics, cosmology and … Continue reading
Consciousness, Causality, Quantum Physics
Found : Consciousness, Causality, Quantum Physics In Bohm's model, then, the quantum world exists even when it is not being observed and measured. He rejects the positivist view that something that cannot be measured or known precisely cannot be said … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, Found, indeterminacy, mechanics, physics, quantum
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Max Tegmark's Theory of Everything
Found : Max Tegmark’s Theory of Everything According to Tegmark, every last formal system on the tree of mathematics is endowed with physical existence. Every last formal system corresponds to an actual universe. Tegmark has extended the Copernican principle beyond … Continue reading
Backward Causation
Found : Backward Causation Sometimes also called retro-causation. A common feature of our world seems to be that in all cases of causation, the cause and the effect are placed in time so that the cause precedes its effect temporally. … Continue reading
What Happened Before the Big Bang? : Paul Davies
Found : What Happened Before the Big Bang? : Paul Davies …given an infinite amount of time, anything that can happen will already have happened, for if a physical process is likely to occur with a certain nonzero probability – … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, Found, infinity, multiverse, physics
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Time travel: Great fiction, impossible science
Found : Time travel: Great fiction, impossible science The urge to hug a departed loved one again or prevent atrocities are among the compelling reasons that keep the notion of time travel alive in the minds of many. While the … Continue reading
Mad Science of the Multiverse
The”anthropic principle” is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument – which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.
It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end? Continue reading
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Tagged AP, Bostrom, cosmology, creation, demiurge, Genesis, Gnosticism, God, infinity, matter, multiverse, physics, polytheism, simulation, universe
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Reversibility
“Stories of reversibility are always the funniest, like the one about the rat and the psychologist: the rat tells about how he ended up by perfectly conditioning the psychologist to give him a piece of bread every time he lifted … Continue reading
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