Philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophers like Parmenides, Zeno and Plato stumbled upon a radical discovery: the distinction between appearance and reality. If we are to ask the question of what reality is (and how we can know this), our best bet at finding some sort of answer would require that we delve deeply into science, mathematics and philosophy.
The following documentary explores some of the questions that are currently at the border between scientific inquiry and philosophical speculation: What are the basic constituents of the universe? How does quantum mechanics make sense? What's up with the double-slit experiment? Is mathematics the language in which the laws of the physical universe are written, or is the universe actually part of a mathematical structure? Do we live in a multi-dimensional universe, or are we simply the holographic projection of information forever trapped in the event horizon of some supermassive black hole? And why can't a guy get a date on a Saturday night? :)
I think the pony tail might help explain the mystery of the last question :)
- Einstein And The Logical Left
Albert Einstein had a problem. He had been working for almost five years to figure out a way to work gravitation into his theory of relativity and he thought he had it. But then there were the holes. He knew he needed a set of field equations and he thought...
- Flatland - Exploring Other Dimensions
Plato's myth of the cave is an allegory that tries to make the point that there may be more to reality than meets the eye, that our experience is simply of a very limited and lowly aspect of reality. Given the knowledge and technology of the time,...
- Science, Philosophy, Cosmology
Cosmology is the attempt to understand in scientific terms the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole. This ambition has been with us since the ancient Greeks, even if the developments in modern cosmology have provided a picture of the universe...
- Universal Laws Of Physics--maybe Not So Universal
I have advocated this for years. It is a logical fallacy to assume that the laws of physics as we observe them are universal. It may well be something we can never test. We would have to test every section of the universe and that is physically impossible....
- S. Hawking...why There Is Something, Not Nothing
or "Father Raymond J. de Souza: Why there is something, not nothing" by Father Raymond J. de Souza June 10th, 2010 The National Post Stephen Hawking, the biggest brain among the big brains of physics, took the star turn here for the recent World...
Philosophy
Horizon - What is Reality?
Ancient Greek philosophers like Parmenides, Zeno and Plato stumbled upon a radical discovery: the distinction between appearance and reality. If we are to ask the question of what reality is (and how we can know this), our best bet at finding some sort of answer would require that we delve deeply into science, mathematics and philosophy.The following documentary explores some of the questions that are currently at the border between scientific inquiry and philosophical speculation: What are the basic constituents of the universe? How does quantum mechanics make sense? What's up with the double-slit experiment? Is mathematics the language in which the laws of the physical universe are written, or is the universe actually part of a mathematical structure? Do we live in a multi-dimensional universe, or are we simply the holographic projection of information forever trapped in the event horizon of some supermassive black hole? And why can't a guy get a date on a Saturday night? :)
I think the pony tail might help explain the mystery of the last question :)
- Einstein And The Logical Left
Albert Einstein had a problem. He had been working for almost five years to figure out a way to work gravitation into his theory of relativity and he thought he had it. But then there were the holes. He knew he needed a set of field equations and he thought...
- Flatland - Exploring Other Dimensions
Plato's myth of the cave is an allegory that tries to make the point that there may be more to reality than meets the eye, that our experience is simply of a very limited and lowly aspect of reality. Given the knowledge and technology of the time,...
- Science, Philosophy, Cosmology
Cosmology is the attempt to understand in scientific terms the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole. This ambition has been with us since the ancient Greeks, even if the developments in modern cosmology have provided a picture of the universe...
- Universal Laws Of Physics--maybe Not So Universal
I have advocated this for years. It is a logical fallacy to assume that the laws of physics as we observe them are universal. It may well be something we can never test. We would have to test every section of the universe and that is physically impossible....
- S. Hawking...why There Is Something, Not Nothing
or "Father Raymond J. de Souza: Why there is something, not nothing" by Father Raymond J. de Souza June 10th, 2010 The National Post Stephen Hawking, the biggest brain among the big brains of physics, took the star turn here for the recent World...