Herb Spencer

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Have Academic Journals Outlived their Usefulness?

When Modern Science was first launched by the Royal Society (UK) it was conceived as a public, shared enterprise open to everyone to share information. This was communicated by their first society...

02 February 2018 9,719 5 View

TIME: Have Intellectuals ignored Time for too long?

Western Civilization has been most influenced in the world of ideas by the Hebrew/Greek traditions, which were merged 2000 years ago into theology known as Christianity, which still dominates many...

12 December 2017 463 1 View

Does the 'SOUL' concept have any philosophical value?

'Soul' seems another of those ancient religious ideas that still persist in modern times; mainly due to that Catholic Coward: Rene Descartes with his dualistic copout, splitting off 'spirit' from...

12 December 2017 8,864 1 View

Have philosophers made any difference to humanity?

Clever men have been "talking" (also known as 'philosophy') for about 2500 years. They have raised many questions but few answers. What are the problems here? Why so little progress? Any...

11 November 2017 8,774 6 View

Can scientists even answer Rupert Sheldrake's challenge to mechanical science?

Rupert Sheldrake believes that the following 10 'mechanical' dogmas are holding back science. Do you agree or not? If so, why?--------------------------------------------------------*1. Nature...

08 August 2017 7,964 0 View

Isn’t the concept of Potential Energy (PE) purely a mathematical fiction?

There are NO examples of real, conservative forces that can be mapped as a two-body interaction (the foundation of Newtonian Physics = Classical Mechanics - CM). Math physics is a series of...

01 January 1970 6,637 91 View

Are paper academic journals now obsolete?

Since researchers can publish their journals freely on the Internet and these are freely accessible, are there any valid reasons for using traditional (paper-based) journals for communicating...

01 January 1970 8,916 14 View

Is Darwinian Evolution Flawless?

It is my impression that Darwinian Evolution, especially the invocation of Genes, has become too readily accepted; there exists Intellectual Crowd Gathering, just as in other areas of fashion...

01 January 1970 9,595 5 View

Why is Wave Mechanics anything more than 3D Fourier Analysis?

In 1807, Joseph Fourier announced his mathematical equivalence of finite functions with an INFINITE series of simple harmonic functions; this meant any complex tone could be summed (analyzed) into...

01 January 1970 9,203 4 View

The bottom 4 are not Toxic, so there is a good reason for splitting the 'heavy metal' group, yes?

Gold is inert. Silver is used an antibiotic. Copper supplements zinc as an enzyme metal. Chrome is used in the insulin-making process.

01 January 1970 3,648 3 View

Is QM a flawed Physics Theory?

In discussing Quantum Mechanics (QM), I shall restrict myself here to Schroedinger's Non-Relativistic Wave Mechanics (WM), as Dirac showed (in his 1930 text) [using Hilbert State Vectors] that...

01 January 1970 3,680 5 View

Where can I find the Apollonius result that an ellipse is the intersection of a plane and a cone?

An algebraic answer would be most useful (3D co-ordinates).

01 January 1970 5,302 28 View