bud rapinThis Island UniverseBig Science Babble - It's not just for cosmology.If anything the standard model of particle physics is even more absurd, incoherent and illogical than its cosmological counterpart as this…Sep 141Sep 141
bud rapUnmentioned here of course, is that the standard model of cosmology, the so-called Big Bang theory…1. The Cosmos is a unified, coherent, simultaneously existing entity - a Universe.Sep 12Sep 12
bud rapinThis Island UniverseAcademic scientists don't care what others believe but they care greatly what they believe …So as with fundamentalist religious believers scientists believe in a host of entities and events that are not part of empirical reality. A…Sep 3Sep 3
bud rapOne of the peculiar characteristics of modern theoretical physics is its inability to connect even…As Siegal documents here, the gravitational effect tracks the behavior of expanding spherical wavefronts of EMR emitted by gravitating…Aug 141Aug 141
bud rapinThis Island UniverseInertia, Gravity, & Electromagnetic RadiationThis very interesting paper originally caught my attention because it demonstrates that Einstein rejected what the paper calls the…Aug 7Aug 7
bud rapRegarding the nature of time Ethan Siegel answers this question in the affirmative:"Is it, itself, an observable quantity?"Jul 271Jul 271
bud rapThe language attending the standard account of QM conveys the confusion that arises from choosing…All physical experiments that produce observable results have physical causes. Bohmian mechanics describes a physical mechanism which…Jul 15Jul 15
bud rapinThis Island UniversePhotons Are Not ParticlesIn 1900, the German physicist Max Planck was studying black-body radiation, and he suggested that the experimental observations…Jun 25Jun 25
bud rapWhat you are describing here is the Dicke-Wheeler version of Relativity Theory which is quite…DWRT contains a substantival spacetime that causally interacts with matter and energy, and the so-called Einstein and Strong Equivalence…Jun 161Jun 161
bud rapinThis Island UniversePolar coordinates are the only appropriate framing for cosmological considerations.Polar coordinates are also appropriate for describing expanding spherical wavefronts. All omnidirectional emitters such as stars and…Jun 1Jun 1