Philosophy
We've seen in previous episodes of this 60-second Adventures in Thought series, all sorts of philosophical, logical, mathematical and scientific paradoxes and all-around weirdness. To remind you, we've seen Zeno's paradox concerning motion, the grandfather paradox concerning backward travel through time, John Searle's chinese room thought experiment concerning thought and computation, Hilbert's infinite hotel concerning different size infinities, Einstein's twin paradox concerning special relativity.
And finally, today we have Schrödinger?s Cat, that poor kitty whose bivalent fate rests upon the superposition of subatomic particles...
For a more serious treatment of Schrödinger?s Cat, check out Jim Al-Khalili's documentary Atoms: The Illusion of Reality.
And for more on infinities, you'll do your brain a favor by watching the excellent documentary Dangerous Knowledge.
- What Is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox?
When I first introduce my students to the weirdness of philosophy and how even our most deeply-entrenched beliefs might be subject to serious questioning, I usually like to begin by posing to them Zeno's attempt to refute the idea that motion is possible...
- To Infinity And Beyond
Apparently the title of this documentary also has something to do with Toy Story? Well, I haven't seen that movie, but I can tell you what this documentary is about... Infinity. The most obvious way to start thinking about infinity is through...
- Time Travel And The Grandfather Paradox
Nothing beats boredom quite like philosophy. You start with almost any seemingly simple question, you do some heavy thinking, and before you know it, like when we were first introduced to Zeno of Elea (or even his mentor, Parmenides), it turns out motion...
- The Impossibility Of Motion - Achilles And The Tortoise
There are many things most of us just take for granted as obvious or just plain common sense, and therefore as not worth wasting our time on. Philosophers, however, nit-picking bunch that we are, are insatiably curious, and in our search for some coherent...
- Sex And Science...erwin Schrödinger
Einstein, Curie, and Erwin Schrödinger...sex issues. Alistair Briggs wrote... Albert Einstein is not the only famous scientist to be somewhat of a womaniser. Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Erwin Schrodinger, may be the man behind the equation...
Philosophy
Schrödinger?s Cat... in 60 Seconds
And finally, today we have Schrödinger?s Cat, that poor kitty whose bivalent fate rests upon the superposition of subatomic particles...
For a more serious treatment of Schrödinger?s Cat, check out Jim Al-Khalili's documentary Atoms: The Illusion of Reality.
And for more on infinities, you'll do your brain a favor by watching the excellent documentary Dangerous Knowledge.
- What Is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox?
When I first introduce my students to the weirdness of philosophy and how even our most deeply-entrenched beliefs might be subject to serious questioning, I usually like to begin by posing to them Zeno's attempt to refute the idea that motion is possible...
- To Infinity And Beyond
Apparently the title of this documentary also has something to do with Toy Story? Well, I haven't seen that movie, but I can tell you what this documentary is about... Infinity. The most obvious way to start thinking about infinity is through...
- Time Travel And The Grandfather Paradox
Nothing beats boredom quite like philosophy. You start with almost any seemingly simple question, you do some heavy thinking, and before you know it, like when we were first introduced to Zeno of Elea (or even his mentor, Parmenides), it turns out motion...
- The Impossibility Of Motion - Achilles And The Tortoise
There are many things most of us just take for granted as obvious or just plain common sense, and therefore as not worth wasting our time on. Philosophers, however, nit-picking bunch that we are, are insatiably curious, and in our search for some coherent...
- Sex And Science...erwin Schrödinger
Einstein, Curie, and Erwin Schrödinger...sex issues. Alistair Briggs wrote... Albert Einstein is not the only famous scientist to be somewhat of a womaniser. Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Erwin Schrodinger, may be the man behind the equation...