• First Principles by Howard Burton

    After returning home from our little vacation, I’ve hunkered down to read, and I thought this would be a good time to come to know of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada and how it started up. As you know I’ve linked the Q2c site coming in September as well as I think…

  • The Rhetorician

    This raises all sorts of questions, the most basic of which are: “What counts as `looking’ vs. `not looking’?” and “Do we really need a separate law of physics to describe the evolution of systems that are being looked at?” Sean Carroll Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance AN INQUIRY INTO VALUES Robert M.…

  • Oh Dear!… How Technology has Changed Things

    Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit…

  • Operational Definition Regressed to the Arts

    It is necessary at this time to show that such a procedure evolved here in Dialogos of Eide had to be taken to be interpreted as a an acceptance and assumption of the way the world “is” according to scientific elaborations given in the interpretation of the “back ground.” For example, the weight of an…