Infinity Room Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 22, 2017 CategoriesCosmologyFine-tuningPhysical Sciences Tagged , __edited, Ethan Siegel, ether, John Horgan, Joseph Carter, Lee Smolin, Michael Egnor, multiverse, natural selection, Paul Steinhardt, Peter Woit, phlogiston, post-modernism, Zeeya Merali The Multiverse Is Science’s Assisted Suicide Denyse O’Leary August 22, 2017 Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences 7 Cosmologists sense the problem and strive to rescue their multiverse from the nagging demands for evidence. Read More ›
strings Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 19, 2017 CategoriesFine-tuningPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Brian Greene, Columbia University, Ethan Siegel, Fermilab, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, nature, Peter Higgs, Peter Woit, Philip Ball, string landscape, string theory, supersymmetry, Theory of Everything Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence Denyse O’Leary July 19, 2017 Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences 6 String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.” Read More ›
playground Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 5, 2017 CategoriesCosmologyPhysical SciencesScience Tagged , __k-review, Big Bang, Columbia University, Darwinism, Higgs Boson, hologram, Martin Rees, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Occam's Razor, Peter Woit, science Cosmology Is Naturalism’s Playground. But Does the Fun Mask a Science Decline? Denyse O’Leary July 5, 2017 Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Science 6 Cosmology has become an art form. Stylish essays are decked out with a very brief skirt of science. Read More ›
rots from the head Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date May 12, 2017 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, Columbia University, consciousness, Cosmos (series), evidence, fake news, falsifiability, hype, illusions, multiverse, naturalism, Normal Science, Occam's Razor, panspermia, Peter Woit, post-truth, Scientific American, scientific reliability, simulation theory, Templeton Foundation How Naturalism Rots Science from the Head Down Denyse O’Leary May 12, 2017 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics 5 The prevalence of, for example, fake physics, shows that we are in the midst of a philosophical decline. Read More ›
