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Sometimes human beings anthropomorphize Nature. What did Nature have in mind? Or, how did Nature arrange that? Or, what trick does Nature have up her sleeve? As if Nature were animated by a vast...
08 August 2018 5,122 2 View
Typically in text books on a subject the presentation is by way of exposition. The reader in effect has an experience analogous to that of a person reading a story. There is the writer...
08 August 2018 4,611 6 View
Galileo wrote Two New Sciences (Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche Intorno a Due Nuove Scienze in Italian). It is presented as a three way discussion, among Salviati, Sagredo, and Simplicio....
08 August 2018 4,146 6 View
Physically Similar Systems: A History of the Concept is a chapter in the Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science by S. G. Sterrett. It is an interesting history. The principle behind similar...
08 August 2018 7,925 1 View
Analogize physics to language. Language and its lexicon are ways of encoding ideas about phenomena, concepts and their relationships to each other. Physics is a way of encoding ideas about...
06 June 2018 8,400 0 View
This is a follow up question to a question I recently posted, How much faster at calculation are n networked identical computers compared to one? I don't know anything about computer circuit...
06 June 2018 5,371 1 View
If networked people are faster solving problems than one, does the same apply to computers? Are there necessary constraints for this problem? Is there any benefit to knowing the answer to this...
05 May 2018 3,556 5 View
The great mathematician David Hilbert set out twenty-three important problems in mathematics in 1900. One of the famous outstanding ones is the Riemann zeta hypothesis. One might argue that once a...
04 April 2018 4,630 8 View
Energy the Subtle Concept by Jennifer Coopersmith was published around 2015. Her book shows that the question, what is energy, is not entirely settled. I don’t here mean E = mv^2. A question not...
04 April 2018 6,398 34 View
Collective intelligence enables the accumulation of knowledge, culture, science and technology and, in stable political physical and economic environments, improves economic well-being. So is...
02 February 2018 9,530 4 View
Andrey Kolmogorov famously wrote three terse papers in 1941 on turbulence. They were published in an English translation in 1991 by Royal Society Publishing. At p. 13 in the first paper and at p....
11 November 2017 1,426 0 View
If the 4/3 law is a path to a simpler characterization of gravity, then there would likely be a way to connect the 4/3 law to general relativity? How?
10 October 2017 9,746 0 View
An attempt to define intelligence appears in the 1996 article Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns" in American Psychologist. The authors implied it is “ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt...
10 October 2017 5,576 1 View
What data or physics supports innateness or on the contrary, the idea that language is a creation of society? Historically, from Herder through David Hume to Jespersen, Sapir, Whorf, Zipf ,...
10 October 2017 2,483 11 View
Tom Wolfe’s 2016 article in Harper’s, The Origins of Speech, mentions Chomsky's idea of a language organ as explaining the emergence of language. Are there arguments based on principle,...
10 October 2017 1,838 11 View
In his treatise on Heat, Planck used the term thermodynamic probability (an integer) when he seems to mean degrees of freedom (page 120, Theory of Heat, Masius translation). If the term degrees of...
01 January 2015 4,126 1 View
Do you have an anecdote from your experience or about another physicist that you can share? A story about how a physics idea can happen? Are there books or articles that collect such stories?
01 January 1970 4,872 4 View
Galileo’s Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo was published in Italian in 1632. The book was placed on an index of forbidden books by the Inquisition in 1633 where it remained until...
01 January 1970 5,815 1 View
My inclination is to suggest that learning history, law, politics and philosophy are in a sense harder than math and science. I googled the question and found a similar question posed on Quora,...
01 January 1970 7,776 5 View
Is a physical basis that necessarily requires constancy of the speed of light a logical impossibility, or is the constancy of the speed of light the result of ideas not yet found or applied? Does...
01 January 1970 1,476 8 View
Is it possible that there is a relationship for SN1A between luminosity distance and redshift distance that is different than the one assumed and graphed on a Hubble diagram?
01 January 1970 5,042 0 View
The article Size, scaling, and invariant ratios compares the scaling and dimensional standpoints in relation to parts of a system such as an animal change in aspect when they become larger. Is...
01 January 1970 2,363 7 View
In what ways are the two similar or different? Do the similarities and the differences help describe the challenges of physics?
01 January 1970 5,652 2 View
Who connected the fluid equation to cosmology? When did that happen? Are there any articles giving a history of the fluid equation as it appears in cosmology?
01 January 1970 1,174 1 View
About June 2007 I found that the mean path length in steps could scale lexical growth. It was impossible not to notice a curious aspect of the log formula, C log (n) (network entropy) that used...
01 January 1970 3,017 3 View
Things scale in size. Things scale by a scale factor. Relationships scale in particular ways: volume scales differently than area, which scales differently than length. Scaling sometimes seems to...
01 January 1970 2,897 11 View
Julius Robert Mayer was a German doctor with an interest in physics. He hypothesized the equivalence of heat and work based on his observation of blood when in a tropical climate compared to a...
01 January 1970 4,448 1 View
In his Principia, in the Motte translation, Scholium at p. 77, he writes of time, in order to remove "certain prejudices": “Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature...
01 January 1970 1,007 5 View
Is time a measure of the counting of some other, more fundamental, feature of the universe, perhaps entropy as it relates to energy in the universe?
01 January 1970 835 6 View
In 1990 an office mate told he had an idea that time could be quantum made up of `time-ons’. At the time, that seemed to me contrary to all the continuity ideas in mathematics, limits,...
01 January 1970 1,510 14 View
At the 1958 Solvay conference on physics, the physicist Thomas Gold gave a lecture on the arrow of time. (The conference materials can be found at...
01 January 1970 8,530 5 View
Does the completeness of knowledge recede from view the more we learn? As new fields of study open, whole new arrays of problems present themselves. For example, the development of electronic...
01 January 1970 5,848 5 View
For example. The American philosopher Brand Blanshard wrote the eloquent Reason & Analysis (1962). At page 265 he wrote: "A priori truths may be recognized not only without the assistance of...
01 January 1970 7,429 90 View
This relates to the preceding question (What is dimensional pressure? ). Reasons for raising this question are: (1) dimensionally, pressure is related to energy; (2) energy occurs at all scales...
01 January 1970 5,244 1 View
Articles I have written mostly use data from other people. One possible exception was my calculation of lexical growth rates (lexical scaling on arxiv and RG), which outside of glottochronology,...
01 January 1970 3,584 3 View
In May 2018 I posted an article on RG: Problem seeking -- Distinguishing AI and Human Intelligence: Problem seeking -- Distinguishing AI and Human Intelligence Human intelligence can be...
01 January 1970 4,454 3 View
I have suspected that dark energy (probably a misnomer) arises from a ratio of lengths since about the fall of 2012. I have periodically tried to improve the theory and argument. I posted a paper...
01 January 1970 5,542 1 View
Matt Ridley wrote The Rational Optimist in 2010 about humanity’s material and intellectual progress. Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now was published in 2018 with some similar observations. Does...
01 January 1970 7,858 1 View
Using redshift, distance to a type 1A supernova can be estimated. Using standard candle luminosity, distance to a type 1A supernova can be estimated. Astronomical observation found luminosity of...
01 January 1970 9,229 2 View
Here are examples of problems involving dimension. (1) Galileo observed that weight in 3 dimensions puts pressure on the 2 dimensions of cross-sectional area of bone. He examines the issue from a...
01 January 1970 7,259 34 View
H is the Hubble constant. Suppose that there is a 3 dim reference frame and a 4 dim reference frame. The 4 dim reference frame consists of 3 dim space + 1 dim motion (light motion). The ratio of...
01 January 1970 9,227 3 View
This remark appears, for example, in a book Hiding in the Mirror by Lawrence Krauss, page 231. A number of questions arise in regards to this remark. If the mechanism that leads to dark energy, so...
01 January 1970 898 4 View
Deriving Stefan’s Law implicitly uses the 4/3 scaling law. This is apparent in an intermediate step of the derivation of Stefan’s Law, as for example in Planck’s text on heat or shown by Longair...
01 January 1970 9,218 0 View
Recent research suggests human brains have about 86 billion neurons (the previous estimate was about 100 billion). Suppose a social insect has 1 million neurons. A community of 86,000 such insects...
01 January 1970 573 4 View
The provenance of this question is from page 152 of Entropy - God's Dice Game by Kafri: “How can links be optimally distributed between nodes?” For a static network, energy efficiency might be...
01 January 1970 1,653 1 View
Sci Am October 2019 issue has an article, Is Death Reversible? by Christof Koch of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. At p. 36 he writes; `... there is no credible evidence that apes, dogs,...
01 January 1970 7,977 3 View
This question has medical and social aspects. It kind of relates to my interest in network distribution of information and the thermodynamics of networks, since the spread of disease is among...
01 January 1970 6,234 8 View
For many scientific phenomena and for economic growth, the rate is all important. Likely the same applies to a virus infecting a population. COVID-19 seems to have a high spread rate. Worldwide,...
01 January 1970 6,323 4 View
This is a followup question to the preceding question: Is it time to dispense with handshake greetings? Mahendra Pal there suggested Namaste, an Indian greeting or the Japanese style of greeting....
01 January 1970 4,781 4 View
My guess: the principle of dimensional capacity. What do you think the physical principle is?
01 January 1970 9,774 3 View
