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A Philosopher Asked Physicists: ‘What Is a Black Hole?’(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by nyc111 8y ago
> we've known for a long time that atoms are not indivisible. I do not agree with your statement that "we've known for a long time that atoms are not indivisible." Lucretius makes very clear that atoms are forever ind
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by nyc111 8y ago
> I wonder how you would define "atomic materialism", especially as opposed to mere "materialism"? Thanks for noting this distinction. Come to think of it and in light of what you wrote re physicalism, I would think t
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by nyc111 8y ago
By coincidence, I'm reading Lucretius' De rerum natura. [1] Lucretius of course is also a materialist. The world is made of "primordial units" which are the indivisible particles. These particles do not have parts. Later
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by nyc111 8y ago
Nice article but I think the trend of popular science writing can be traced to 17th century to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems published in 1632. He wrote it in Italian not in Latin to reach the interested lay
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Voyage into the world of atoms(youtu.be)
1 points by nyc111 8y ago|0 comments
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When gravity breaks down(m.nautil.us)
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An explosion of the Pound-Rebka experiment(milesmathis.com)
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Babylonian Tablet Proves Pythagoras Did Not Invent Pythagorian Theorem(youtu.be)
1 points by nyc111 8y ago|1 comments
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by nyc111 8y ago
Thanks for the link. That was a good detailed discussion.
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Why matter exists(m.nautil.us)
3 points by nyc111 8y ago|0 comments
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by nyc111 8y ago
We seem to be saying the same thing but instead of "brain" I say "consciousness." Appearances we call dreams originate in the guts and are serviced to the consciousness. How or why I don't know. It may be through th
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by nyc111 8y ago
It's true that some nights we sleep deeply and we are not aware of any dreams. I think this happens when the digestive system is not doing any work, that is, if we go to sleep with empty stomach.
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by nyc111 8y ago
Source is my personal experience. I'm positive that if I go to bed with full stomach the probability of nightmare increases. Also some food like dairy triggers nightmares I think. Of course, all circumstantial, I didn't try a scie
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by nyc111 8y ago
I just think it has something to do with the bacteria but I don't know how it works. I think that by personal experience certain kind of food causes nightmares. I associate nightmares with food that cause bloating like starch. And also
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by nyc111 8y ago
But dreaming is related to the gut not the brain. What we eat before we go to sleep decides what we dream about. Dream is related to the microbiome. We are conscious of only the dreams just before we wake up. That is, before the conscious m
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Physics has demoted mass (2017)(m.nautil.us)
18 points by nyc111 8y ago|2 comments
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by nyc111 8y ago
But who will be making the decision to build the next accelerator?
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Ignaz Semmelweis(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by nyc111 8y ago|0 comments
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by nyc111 8y ago
So, is there consensus that QM does not violate the belong/not belong principle of Aristotle? Reading the comments, I wasn't sure.
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by nyc111 8y ago
Similar to liar's paradox, may be "this page was intentionally left blank" paradox. Since the page contains this writing, it is not blank. So whoever wrote on that page "this page was intentionally left blank" was l
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by nyc111 8y ago
I also was interested in the same quote. In what sense did quantum mechanics break this principle?
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by nyc111 8y ago
In history only the kings could turn themselves into idols. The process is the same. Now it is democratized. Any management company can turn an ordinary person into an idol. People believe that these are idols. From the video where she crie
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by nyc111 8y ago
> (so if we flip a coin infinite times, we may get infinite Heads and never get a single Tail(?)) But flipping a coin follows strict rules. A robot who is programmed to flip with same variables will always make the coin land on the same
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Disturbing the silence(aeon.co)
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by nyc111 8y ago
Answers all my questions about the experiment https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-grows-first-plants-on-...
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Pocket Notebooks of 20 Famous Men(artofmanliness.com)
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The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It(quantamagazine.org)
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by nyc111 8y ago
Still, it would have been interesting to see what happens to the seed on the surface of the moon. Maybe a cactus used to desert sun could adapt to the harsh conditions on the moon.
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by nyc111 8y ago
> The plants are in a sealed container on board the lander. For a moment I thought they were in the open... Since they are enclosed is there a reason why they should not sprout? The gravity is less but that should not make a difference.

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