Tag: #metaphysics
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Forged in fire, part 1
Occasionally students ask questions that catch me off guard. Years ago, we had just wrapped up a discussion of science history in my conceptual physics class. One student raised his hand in response to my asking if there were any questions. He wanted to know why science had started in Europe as opposed to somewhere…
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Implications of the Big Bang
Albert Einstein later called it ‘the greatest blunder’ of his life, at least that is how the story goes. At the beginning of the 20th century many astronomers assumed that the universe was static and unchanging. For good reasons. They had found the distances between stars to be mind-boggling and no evidence of them moving…