Alex Filippenko Type post Author Paul Nelson Date November 30, 2020 CategoriesPhilosophy of SciencePhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , dark energy, dark matter, Lex Fridman, phylogenetics, Ptolemaic system, systematics, UC Berkeley “Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”? Paul Nelson November 30, 2020 Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics 2 I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Read More ›
Contortionist,_posed_in_studio,_ca._1880 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date January 29, 2020 CategoriesOrigin of LifePhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , __edited, Big Think, biological information, category error, consciousness, cosmos, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, dark matter, Denyse O'Leary, Evolution News, gas, information, intelligent design, John Archibald Wheeler, liquid, Mass, mass-energy, materialism, Mind Matters, natural world, plasma, Robert J. Marks II, solid, The Mystery Life’s Origin, University of Portsmouth, Ur-text, William A. Dembski Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion David Klinghoffer January 29, 2020 Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics 4 Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized. Read More ›
Milky-Way-1 Type post Author Guillermo Gonzalez Date October 17, 2019 CategoriesCosmologyPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , __edited, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, cepheid variable stars, CMBR, cosmological constant, cosmologists, dark energy, dark matter, Doppler effect, Gaia spacecraft, general relativity, Hubble Space Telescope, Nobel Prize, universe A Crisis in Cosmology? Guillermo Gonzalez October 17, 2019 Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics 6 It’s too bad biologists are not as open about crises in their theories. It’s the sign of a healthy science. Read More ›
616408main_pia13953-43_full Type post Author Guillermo Gonzalez Date March 7, 2019 CategoriesCosmologyPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Arno Penzias, Big Bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, dark matter, general relativity, helium, Hubble’s Law, hydrogen, inflation, lithium, Milky Way, solar system, Steady State Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades Guillermo Gonzalez March 7, 2019 Cosmology, Physical Sciences 5 The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years. Read More ›
actin-filaments Type post Date February 14, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Actin, amino acids, cells, CRISPR, dark matter, Darwinian evolution, eLife, isoforms, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, mice, National Institutes of Health, Nature News, nucleotide, proteins, Stanford University, The Myth of Junk DNA, University of Pennsylvania More Secret Codes in “Junk DNA” Science and Culture February 14, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 Scientists find the most interesting things when they suspect function in poorly understood parts of the genome. Read More ›
