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The economy in science principle is important since it guides scientific progress, development, it is inherent in validation criteria of new theories etc. In a nutshell, it concerns ** minimally...
05 January 2024 2,315 0 View
Solutions to Einstein equations to simple cases and geodesic eqns predict either "Wall of death trick" (non zero angular momentum) motion or oscilatory motion to origins. The later has not so...
01 January 2024 412 0 View
Lorentz transformation is an important part of our world view. It is a must in every relativistic and unification al theory, to say the least. Its physical interpretation is incomplete, I...
30 December 2023 1,687 0 View
Recent research baesd on hypothesis of the presence of atom sized BH in the sun shows that BH drives convection in the core of the Sun and mixes its innermost regions, but otherwise causes little...
23 December 2023 1,567 1 View
Certain theorists such as Smolin have take this seriously. Although it is an officisl "problem definition statement" in many graduates school programs, I think it would be useful to clarify the...
18 December 2023 6,896 3 View
Two stronger arguments for black holes existence are ** detection of radiation from a acreation discs, indadescent ratiation emitting material, that matches theory ** radiation in 3021from a...
16 December 2023 3,197 2 View
The starting point to the biggest refusion of his principle is unorthodox but it does the work: Debates continue that go over the line between life and nonlife. If we can use an extremely broad,...
11 December 2023 5,116 6 View
The Threshold Concepts pedagogy is gaining ground and finding worldwide. It adresses many aspects of learning theory never before addressed: ** how learning is sometimes having elements of a...
09 December 2023 236 0 View
String theory remains an intellectual feat and helped derive development in physics, inspires new tools and refinement of concepts but never really made it as a complete theory, as is known. For...
07 December 2023 9,355 5 View
Phonons, stable solutions i momentum space of Field theory, at zero temperatures and superfluid conditions have been proved to be part of acoustiv waves that transfer mass due to gravitationally...
02 December 2023 6,752 5 View
Issues in cosmology cause or inspires scientists to refer to mechanisms and ascribed "roles" to some physical systems that echo respective roles of biological or engineering entities i.e black...
28 November 2023 4,362 0 View
One could say that the e-profiling & e-faming is just an equivalent form to medieval public shaming, albeit it is used for different value promotion. In this respect the re-emergence of...
27 November 2023 8,258 0 View
Physical science paradigms, in the Kuhnian, sense are not easy to come around-history says it takes about 2000 years to "invent" a new one. When Gallileo introduced the new physical science...
25 November 2023 5,264 1 View
Newtonian/Gallileann inertia describes very well i.e answers without creating new puzzling questions the phenomena in the domain i.e unpowered motion in free space. Machs principle consider...
24 November 2023 8,239 5 View
Here are some: Experimental/empirical- a bizzare theory predictions i.e purple color galactic spectra for big Bang theory Mathematical syllogism i.e Witten's complete proof using spinors of the...
22 November 2023 3,516 0 View
Certainly non psychological, there are many nature like entropic, illusional (block universe theory), Aristotelian (that which realize change), mathematical (Smolin, Bergson). Still none of...
21 November 2023 2,463 2 View
Although fruitful in special science's like biology that also accept the external reality hypothesis , MBEs have not found fruitful ground in physics. Not that funded research has ever been...
21 November 2023 673 1 View
Also called the conventionalist interpretation of physics success this is a main counterargument against the ni-miracles thesis i.e physics success cannot attributes to biz are epistemology or...
20 November 2023 9,270 2 View
There are a number of answers to this Q. This answer has been critisized by some philosophers i.e Darwin theory's set laws are too dynamic to be laws which retain a static traits and even some...
16 November 2023 1,576 3 View
As is well known physicists rarely take philoso0hers arguments and positions about science seriously. There are 3 rationales: 1. Agnostisism. Physicists laugh off serious philosophical arguments...
05 November 2023 3,516 1 View
Theories of Everything or ultimate unified theories have evaded the conceptual grssp of scientists, with string theory and others coming close. Physics theories, unlike in other fields must...
05 November 2023 3,817 3 View
Even thought classes are persona, not persona but many teacherscassignnpersinas, with psychological traits, to student classes, especially in difficult ones. They believe this gives them a...
03 November 2023 7,089 3 View
Since Einstein proposed the fundamental shiftbin thinking, that time and space are interwoven, people began to doubt time's fundamental it. Althoughtbitbis still ladenly agreed to be...
28 October 2023 2,863 72 View
The problem of reality of atoms isboth a problem of philosophy and science. Unkniwn to many, famous physicists refused the reality of atoms in early 20th C. But my issue here is other:is there...
27 October 2023 6,181 1 View
Stars, atoms and electrons are concepts in the same way a ball is: they represents something in reality in a more human friendly or Abstract way, (=conceptual element) that what they are i.e a...
23 October 2023 5,417 3 View
Physics High School statistics are dissappointing in many respects. Few know that even such a main and relatable concept as velocity is not well understood technical, which is 80% of its...
22 October 2023 6,296 3 View
The so-called "tunelling effect" gives a non zero probabilitu for an electron to surpass a potential barrier i.e violates the fladsic "energy battle rule"(between energy and external potentials)...
19 October 2023 1,087 2 View
Everett's many world interpretation and the development of the macroscopic decoherence concept are thought by many as the best answers to the interpretation issues of quantum theory i.e the...
17 October 2023 6,202 2 View
Some literature/peer suggestions include: ** moving from teacher initiated questions to student initiated about problem solving ** focus on what teacher perceived as challenging areas in each...
15 October 2023 7,688 11 View
Τhe loss of momentum correlations after position estination disturbs the correlations between the complex values, i.e momentum is not deterministically known or via probability density of...
14 October 2023 1,056 2 View
While technically it holds in both sub-domains of physics (CM and QM), there might be a special case that it does not. Here's the argument agaist it being an absolute truth : ** Witten' s non...
09 October 2023 1,986 0 View
The holographic principle is a concept that arises from theoretical physics, particularly in the context of string theory and black hole physics. It suggests that the information within a region...
06 October 2023 8,599 3 View
Starting with the expansion of universe theory, physicists suspect that the universe that existed before is not known and this creates illusions to what is. This might mean that aspects of what we...
06 October 2023 1,683 9 View
Distortions of reality are thought to be driving force in model creation in science Relativity Time is not fundamental, spacetime is Linear ordering of events instead of force altering non-event,...
04 October 2023 9,647 0 View
What is quantum space, and what is quantum time? This is, in fact, the problem we call quantum gravity. We learn that there is a limit to the divisibility of space. Below a certain scale,...
14 August 2023 7,066 6 View
Although people are trying hard to unify gravity with fundamental forces, gravity should also relate, (derive from a Common parental entity of phenomena or theory) to the fundamental 0henomenon of...
09 August 2023 1,931 6 View
According to M. Fountopoulou, the 21st century teacher needs powerful tools and techniques for developing and cultivating personal skills, which are both exciting and significantly relevant: -...
07 August 2023 3,760 11 View
Teacher identify has been in the past associated with a kind of owe inspiring yet of an unsophisticated kind, one of devoted and monk-type personalities, dogma servants who need not any of the...
07 August 2023 3,748 1 View
Physics is made of 3 main branches: classical mechanics "point mass" including gravity, electromagnetism (80% of phenomena) & fluid mechanics. The 1st and 3rd are so far conceptually the most...
02 August 2023 9,146 5 View
Bohmian mechanics is a reformulation of Qm which succeds in Solving some issues like indeterminacy, according to its aclaim. However it has question able postulates: There are 2 states in...
02 August 2023 7,638 0 View
Assesment theory is a critical part of teaching (sone consider teaching and assesment go by hand). Still assesment theory bypassed as redundant and graphical. Big fault. In physics,...
30 July 2023 2,323 0 View
America theoretical physicists Lee Smolin speaks of the need for real time and novelty in physics. Although he focuses on variable laws, his assumptions might ss well fit in an 'ascent-type"...
24 July 2023 1,785 0 View
I believe physics curriculum designers are either too convervative or agnostic about the pedagogic structure. Since critical thinking is the main feature of masters programs, physicists who insist...
27 June 2023 9,668 2 View
It is a shared wisdom that physics should only deal with problem attacks, experiments and novel solutions or ideas. In other fields, reviews enjoy a higher status. But it still needs tools of...
25 June 2023 6,799 0 View
I believe physics masters programs need innovation to overcome the slow progress in solving theoretical problems in physics in the form of ph.D replicating standards. Imagine a student who has to...
23 June 2023 6,856 1 View
Memorization, due to its strong correlation to the Data processing model by literature has been of fashion and even considered as an ailment in teaching an learning theories. Also, because it is...
04 May 2023 2,933 4 View
Physics Masters degreesnot teach concepts and skills without relating them to recent utilization of those concepts by leading literature proposal, leaving basic meaning pedagogical aspects behind,...
09 April 2023 6,143 0 View
Smolin's aim contradicts scientific approach main postulates i. E the qualifying thresholds for success (about natural world) 1. Mathematical dependence of all the points in the universe and of...
19 March 2023 2,643 2 View
These are the most controversial thesis of the famous physicist. Most of the community disagree but no official thesis yet (i m working on one) partly because no big journal published them. The...
05 March 2023 8,089 18 View
Teaching is a process than utilizes teacher's subject knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, methods, communicative skills and other resources. Effective teaching is defined as one that has...
03 March 2023 8,286 8 View
Einstein was a revolutionary scientist, possibly for the first time in the several hundred years that transpired following Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of, and ability to express in mathematical...
01 March 2023 4,565 9 View
Introduced by Newton, the dichotomy is still central in theoretical physics. it is active in cst, quantum gravity etc.No1&3 are endorced by theorists such as Freedman& Smolin. No2 was...
25 February 2023 3,135 4 View
There are a few point to consider in this issue Points pro current emphasis 1. Math is the backbone of a physical theory. Good representation, good quantities of a theory, phenomena but bad math...
18 February 2023 6,487 10 View
This is an important issue, as it would tell us something interesting about other open problems in physics, like the prob of quantum gravity. Also information-theoretical principles will do.
02 February 2023 2,583 4 View
Smolin's ideas that physics deals too much with geometrical terms in its answers to questions and that even time is seen as a space dimension and not real have important repercussions. It means...
31 January 2023 8,936 7 View
There are at least 2 stands in this & issue debate. **Scientific continuity is related to scientific change Shebere & Kuhn are repredebtatives. The (alleged by S. ) problem of...
30 January 2023 1,484 2 View
Keeping attention or provoking student interest is not considered a proper pedagogical approach at least in education theory. The same with attention grabbers that fall outsider standard types...
29 January 2023 4,451 3 View
Realism is a pillar of science along others (science as economy of experience etc). However it has been doubted as the unquestioned one recently. Here are some of the possible strong cases for the...
29 January 2023 9,052 0 View
Gravity has puzzled modern researchers in its inability to be incorporated into the unification models and in its lack of microscipic origin. I proposed a way to call this aim complete by...
22 January 2023 5,169 100 View
Sample anti realist perspectives **Fields are just cognitive constructions that provide countrrfactuals to reason observe behavior of charged particles ** When there is no motion, forces do not...
21 January 2023 5,105 2 View
Recent work (Smolin, 2021) tries to overthrow Gallilean reduction of change to motion and representation of motion solely mathematically. Summary of philosophical approaches to physics...
17 January 2023 4,294 2 View
Physics incests billions in theory development and experiments to the problem of quantum theory-GR (general relativity) unification. Some hypotheses like holographic principle emerged born out of...
02 January 2023 5,866 4 View
Einstein used an unorthodoxmethod to derive his work. Even the equivalence fornula started from an intuition about its inrvitsble truthness rather than a constructive combination of previews...
24 December 2022 3,867 0 View
Einstein improved the philosophical hypothesis of gravitational physical system from the misfit mechanical olus dubious acting at a distances to the fluidity-laden space time background that has...
24 December 2022 5,310 7 View
Science is considered as separate and unrelated endeavor from language. Yet, its terms and peculiar concepts and even phraces such as "language of science" point to the opposite. Students...
21 August 2022 9,626 1 View
Putnam critisized logical positivists acounts of the meaning of scientific terms and nature of scientific theories because they were incompatible with minimal scientific realism. However, before...
26 July 2022 8,851 1 View
Research in education is based and is validated by test groups involving students. However, teachers are not unified in their outcome. Some consistently produce higher average scores given...
07 February 2022 7,096 4 View
Most research in efucation& learning science in these days is consumed with maximizing teacher factor and other factors like the role or patterns of teacher-student-relationship are not...
27 January 2022 274 6 View
Empirical science is on the rise and its methods are adopted to an increasing number of domains from psychology to education to economics. However, this method and epistemology is alien to...
31 July 2020 9,124 7 View
The Conventioned dealt with the realities after the last second world war and with a world population of 2.5 billion. Since then, third world countries have experienced increased population rates...
31 July 2020 8,714 2 View
Before lesson planning there needs to be a conscious planning and the unconscious needs to conduct inspiring and disruptive to the state of student's knowledge results. This process is...
10 August 2019 7,254 1 View
In today's over-empowered students (in some countries, at least) and parental involvement too often student satisfacton is taken as the de facto measure of educational effectiveness. But this is...
19 February 2019 5,153 8 View
Perception is not the ultimate guide for knowledge but as Gallileo captured the actual and empirical, not necessarily the real, similar concerns arise. In general, the repercussions of Reduction...
01 January 1970 656 2 View
Electron is an experimentally verified yet highly speculated and theory of structure of matter co-dependent construct and entity. Fouble slit results further stress this abiguity bevause its has a...
01 January 1970 3,089 1 View
Deep learning involves arriving at concrete memory and recall ability outcomes, which were not possible in surface learning i.e. one who understands quantum mechanics knows by memory that in...
01 January 1970 8,912 2 View
Pros It's effective. It is working universally (to some extend in some cases, in others more extensively) It has been unchallenged. I would say it leans more on the side of assessment than...
01 January 1970 1,371 3 View
Physics is often seen as the "experimental science" but is this really the case? Physics is a system that uses new language and frameworks to organize empirical data. (In this framework questions...
01 January 1970 7,628 0 View
Qm is the ultimate realists utilization of the powerful differential equations, because the integer options and necessities of solutions correspond to nature's quanta. The same can be said for GR...
01 January 1970 7,974 3 View
There is valid curiosity that such modifications might exist in nature. There is research in proving mathematical results that shed light on QT in a more operational manner, motivated by quantum...
01 January 1970 2,387 8 View
High school physics does not have the best affective appeal - not reputation among general student population-possibly due to content emphasis. Affective aspects however are important in early to...
01 January 1970 4,752 2 View
Physics scores law on literacy and interest in high school, together with history. Although students are prejudiced against evidence-based thinking in favor of logical syllogism, which permeates...
01 January 1970 8,131 0 View
4 Status levels and stages (from highest to lowest) ** transitive but promising. It has led to some improvement ** narrow ideas/inconsistent adaptation/low applicational value. Pck pedagogical...
01 January 1970 9,104 1 View
These are weird times in education. Since the appearance of parent's, student and citizen's "voices", teaching has has been harshly attacked, prejudisized, its work misconceived and wildly...
01 January 1970 9,954 8 View
While other science fields or academic disciplines, like psychology, opened up to receive hard science or positivist influences in their paradigm, physics has remained "airtight". Although its...
01 January 1970 205 0 View
Constructive ideas sometimes face cold receptions from insiders who have developped conceptual rigitidy and sometimes identify a theory with the thematic domain of a field, unable to see the...
01 January 1970 806 0 View
Studying the magnetic and electronic properties of matter by exploiting polarization-dependent X-ray diffraction is a growing field in physics. It is part of Extreme Conditions Research and in...
01 January 1970 3,362 0 View
There are many reasons the above physicists argument is made-believe and its by definition right. Although physics laws are the most exceptionless generalizations in any discipline and one of...
01 January 1970 5,846 0 View
Social schollars preach that there is no interpretation of laws or fully grounded explanations in science in the sense that they be flowless, layman level stimulating. But.. Some counter...
01 January 1970 2,366 1 View
There are some important yet so far not deeply effectively convincing arguments towards science's legitimacy. Some main ones are: ** theory laddenness i.e it uses concepts such as the sun that...
01 January 1970 5,775 0 View
The Schrödinger equation opened roads in the interpretation of phenomena previously vaquely explained or it contribute to. More accurate descriptions of them allow ing for tech progress or special...
01 January 1970 9,942 0 View
Newton' laws are responsible for more technological applications and Innovation than any other scientific feat. Einstein theories are considered an improved version of theorizingbtge the same...
01 January 1970 6,451 1 View
Hundrends of millions have been invested in this feat, after some initial promise such as the Ashtekar's reformulation of GR, the Wheeler DeWitt equation etc (i. E. 100m to a research Group baseb...
01 January 1970 8,348 4 View
The Wheeler–DeWitt equation* It has some amazing properties [1]. It is timeless and it is describing a world of only space. Timelessness and vanishing trajectories and spacetime The full...
01 January 1970 7,054 2 View
There are many situations where the law is unable to have a say in recent world circumstances. This calls for a review and possible reccomendation of new criminal or illegal practices that so far...
01 January 1970 9,102 0 View
Instantons are theoretical predictions mediated by of quantum effects such as tunelling and zero point energy. Aka pseudoparticles, are solutions to the equations of motion in classical field...
01 January 1970 6,093 0 View
No research, to the author's onowledge, exists to correlate learning outcomes to study or learning emphasis of physics masters students. Readon is that usually highly academically achieved...
01 January 1970 9,448 3 View
It is maybe an easy shortcut to satisfy the pedagogical or assesment principle of variation in difficulty in an exam in physics by using more sophisticated calculative prediction tasks, to a leve...
01 January 1970 8,295 6 View
