Tag: #metaphysics
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The reality of the ‘Scientifically impossible’
At first glance, she seemed like an ordinary person. She was an old, tiny woman, her brown face wrinkled, her black hair turned gray. She could have been bitter after a lifetime of hardship. She never knew her father and had to leave school early to help her mother make ends meet. Through hard work…
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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…