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Determinism Determinism (also called antiserendipity) is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and behavior, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.[1] With numerous historical debates, many varieties and philosophical positions on … Continue reading →

The New Bet Whereas Stephen W. Hawking (having lost a previous bet on this subject by not demanding genericity) still firmly believes that naked singularities are an anathema and should be prohibited by the laws of classical physics, And whereas … Continue reading →

True creativity often starts where language ends.Arthur Koestler Probabilties (The Fifth Dimension) | | Idea of the pipe / \ / \ / \ Picture of the pipe / \ / \ / \ The real pipe and form See: … Continue reading →

The surface of a marble table is spread out in front of me. I can get from any one point on this table to any other point by passing continuously from one point to a “neighboring” one, and repeating this … Continue reading →

Dialogos of Eide

Galileo flying by Earth Galileo, launched in 1989, flew by Earth twice for gravity assists on its 6-year journey to Jupiter. Credit: Michael Carroll Researchers Investigate New Cosmic Mystery: The Flyby Anomaly by By Amir Alexander A new study by … Continue reading →

One of the pairs of cards used in the experiment. The card on the left has the reference line and the one on the right shows the three comparison lines. The Asch conformity experiments which were published in 1953, were … Continue reading →

See here Rankin’s Eyescapes photographsby David PescovitzOf the Week By Bee of Backreaction Iris recognition:An algorithm of a person’s universe? Breakthrough work to create the iris recognition algorithms required for image acquisition and one-to-many matching was pioneered by John G. … Continue reading →

The Origin of the Highest Energy ParticlesDate: 2008-01-09 14:00:00 Abstract: After almost a century of observations, the ultra-high energy sky has finally displayed an anisotropic distribution. A significant correlation between the arrival directions of ultra-high cosmic rays measured by the … Continue reading →