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A warrior gene complex has been identified (James Fallon et al.), and a current theory says that females in conflict areas tend to naturally seek the protection of males who exhibit that gene...
11 November 2017 4,768 6 View
Different physicists disagree on whether there is such a thing as the wave function of the universe. - In favor of its existence is the fact that, in the Big Bang picture, all particles (and hence...
02 February 2016 6,509 85 View
Do you know of any recent experimental or theoretical advances in 'Causal Dynamic Triangulations' (Renate Loll et al.), in Quantum Einstein Gravity (Martin Reuter et al.), in Quantum Graphity...
08 August 2014 1,935 4 View
For those who take that view - can you then please walk us through what happens in the wake of a massive supernova burst ? All the scenarios I see lead back to a black hole, and I'd be really...
02 February 2014 5,412 17 View
What is the value of, say, aleph one over aleph null ?
07 July 2013 2,144 24 View
In his latest book 'Farewell to Reality', Jim Baggott suggests that the Anthropological Principle, even in its 'weak' rendition, is not a valid scientific area of enquiry. Do you agree? The...
05 May 2013 3,676 16 View
Is the cardinality of B always stronger than that of A ?
03 March 2013 9,384 6 View
What happens when the Black Hole dissolves owing to Hawking radiation? Has the universe unmoored itself by creating its own separate spacetime and therefore remains unaffected?
03 March 2013 6,711 2 View
Along with an infinity of near-identical copies, etc. ad infinitum (Colin Bruce, Tegmark, et al.) In a nutshell, this affirmation is based on the fact that a non-zero probability (you exist, so...
03 March 2013 3,036 4 View
I just came back from a science conference where the speaker heaped scorn on some phenomena which Quote most people believe in Unquote but which are Quote patently wrong.. For example, he...
02 February 2013 1,270 3 View
I thought that the question of hidden variables had been definitely laid to rest, both by Gleason's theorem and by the work of Colbeck and Renner in Zürich, but I''ve come across recent mentions...
02 February 2013 10,150 17 View
In other words, can the Quantum Zeno Effect be observed acting on systems with many-variable wavefunctions?
02 February 2013 5,046 3 View
Essentially, if time was created at the Big Bang, quantum fluctuation forces it to have existed before it, rather than concurrently with it as is customarily assumed.. Does this calculation...
01 January 2013 1,534 25 View
Two questions: 1- Do Aleph 4 and the above exist ? 2- Aleph 0 is the infinite cardinality of natural, and natural and rational numbers. Can it really be the cardinality of the set of prime...
01 January 2013 2,625 10 View
Human eyes have constant breaks in perception whenever they flit about, in blind jumps called saccades. To experience this temporary blindness, look at your own eyes in a mirror and shift your...
12 December 2012 6,703 7 View
Time can be viewed as an emergent property : whenever any change occurs anywhere in the universe - in other words whenever the state space of the universe undergoes any change - then Time itself...
12 December 2012 2,032 63 View
Fermat's last theorem was finally solved by Wiles using mathematical tools that were wholly unavailable to Fermat. Do you believe A) That we have actually not solved Fermat's theorem the way it...
12 December 2012 6,943 2 View
There may be other explanations such as a form of one-universe entanglement, etc. What is your take?
12 December 2012 5,962 20 View
Many answers have been put forward (e.g. Itzhak Bars, et al.) , thanks for indicating the reasons that lead you to your answer
11 November 2012 5,370 38 View
Objects (particles, etc.) have no timeline memory whatsoever, yet they do behave as they are engineered to (by obeying momentum impulses, etc.). The only way they can conform to their expected...
11 November 2012 9,738 5 View
Math can generate material reality as follows : 1- Through geometry: in his book " The Shape of Inner Space: The Universe's Hidden Dimensions", Shing-Tung Yau shows how pure geometry can generate...
11 November 2012 2,525 8 View
The wave function of a free electron is not mathematically integrable with infinite spacelike integration boundaries, nor with infinite timelike integration boundaries (i.e. within infinite...
11 November 2012 9,658 27 View
In other words, if ψ is the wave function of the Multiverse, can ψ(X) = ψ(X,ψ) ? (with a condition that ∫ψ(X)ψ(X)*dσ=1= ∫ψ(X,ψ)ψ(X,ψ)*dσ under integration boundaries to be defined) There are...
11 November 2012 3,922 6 View
See at http://www.nature.com/news/small-galaxy-harbours-super-hefty-black-hole-1.11913 Do you agree with Jenny Greene's conjecture on the formation of supermassive BH ?
11 November 2012 8,435 4 View
