Freeman Dyson’s Disturbing Scientific Theology (johnhorgan.org)
Freeman Dyson’s Disturbing Scientific Theology...
Crossing an event horizon
Tl;dr: Someone please explain to me why some physicists think something could ever cross the event horizon of a black hole....
Scientists and Philosophers argue for a new natural law—the law of increasing functional information (www.pnas.org)
Philosophers like Murray Bookchin argued that the natural world tends towards greater and greater diversity. Now scientists in collaboration with philosophers argue that this tendency to complexify could constitute a natural law of the universe....
What are your thoughts on the problem of infinite regress? (en.wikipedia.org)
I think all of us here can agree that seeking to describe our universe in terms of laws and principles that allow us to make predictions about its dynamics is a worthy and fascinating pursuit. It is also undeniably valuable to any species that wishes to live and thrive in it....
A police officer pulls over Werner Heisenberg for speeding
“Do you know how fast you were going?” asks the cop. “No,” Heisenberg replies, “but I know precisely where I am!”
Possibly the fanciest book I own now (slrpnk.net)
My partner ordered it for me a couple of weeks ago as a surprise, but she had to tell me shortly after because I was talking about it and she didn’t want to risk me ordering it too. The anticipation has been torturous.
[Podcast] 63 | Solo: Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics – Sean Carroll (www.preposterousuniverse.com)
This is one of my favourite episodes of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast. He talks about his recent work in attempting to derive the kind of spacetime geometry we observe from little more than the mere existence of a universal quantum wavefunction....
