In my Pillars of Science series, I enumerated six aspects of Science that help explain why it works so well. It should be clear from my analysis that the characteristics of Science are quite flexible. All of the criteria are … Continue reading
I’ve now completed my Pillars of Science series. My goal was to analyze why Science is such an amazingly effective method for discovering new truths about the world. Here are the 6 “Pillars” I identified. Of course, Science is a … Continue reading
In my last post about spacetime, I explained how the geometry of spacetime is determined at each spacetime point by a set of 10 numbers. These 10 numbers are packaged together into a $$4 \times 4$$ matrix called the metric, … Continue reading
Back in the comments section of my post on Giving Thanks, an old college friend and I are discussing the age-old problem of why God permits suffering and other evils. This is a serious problem; in my view the Argument … Continue reading
Today I went to a talk by Lawrence Krauss entitled “A Universe from Nothing”, which had the following abstract: The question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” has been asked for millenia by people who speculate on the need … Continue reading