Category: Physics
The physics of nothing at all …
| May 27, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Physics |
Can it exist, by definition? more
What qualifies as science in the wonderful world of Disney
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Cosmology, Humor, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science |
The scientific enterprise entails: 1. observation 2. hypothesis 3. testing Consider this passage from the class text of an introductory cosmology class I took once upon a time: galaxies farther than 4300 megaparsecs from us are currently moving away from us at speeds greater than that of light. Cosmological innocents sometimes exclaim, “Gosh! Doesn’t this… more
On pulling a cosmos out of a non-existent hat . . .
| May 12, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, ID Foundations, language, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Physics |
This morning, CH has by implication raised the issue that has been hotly debated recently: getting a cosmos out of “nothing.” I thought it would be helpful to headline my comment: ______________ >> . . . “Something from nothing” is always problematic. Now, I know I know, here is Ethan Siegel of Science Blogs in… more
Rosenhouse Concedes Without Realizing It
| April 2, 2013 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
There is currently a discussion going on about Nagel’s new book, Mind and Cosmos between Ed Feser and Jason Rosenhouse. Feser takes Rosenhouse to task pretty well but there’s one thing that I think he overlooks – Rosenhouse actually winds up conceding the entire argument at the end. more
He said it: Impact of Americans’ waning interest in fundamental physics research
| October 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“But the fact that the United States has not provided an equivalent machine to check CERN’s results—or even to have beaten them to the punch—is discouraging.” more
Physicist Sean Carroll suggests that someday science can rule out God — revealing his philosophical agenda under the holy lab coat, yet again
| September 19, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Philosophy, Physics, Science, worldview issues and society |
This morning, as I opened up my computer, the following Yahoo News headline leaped out: Will Science Someday Rule Out the Possibility of God? By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com Over the past few centuries, science can be said to have gradually chipped away at the traditional grounds for believing in God. Much of what once… more
A Designed Object’s Entropy Must Increase for Its Design Complexity to Increase – Part 2
| September 5, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Informatics, Physics, Self-Org. Theory |
In order for a biological system to have more biological complexity, it often requires a substantial increase in thermodynamic entropy, not a reduction of it, contrary to many intuitions among creationists and IDists. This essay is part II of a series that began with Part 1 The physicist Fred Hoyle famously said: The chance that… more
A note: On entropy, the Macro-micro information gap [MmIG] and the OOL challenge of getting from Darwin’s pond-state to living cell state (a gated encapsulated metabolising automaton with informationally controlled self-replication) without intelligently directed organising work (IDOW)
| September 5, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Origin Of Life, Physics |
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Sal C has begun a series of UD posts on entropy, thermodynamics and info challenges. I have thought it important to highlight the macro-micro info gap issues underscored by Jaynes et al, and to raise the issue of spontaneously moving from Darwin’s Pond-state to cell-state (whether in increments or not does not materially affect the… more
A Designed Object’s Entropy Must Increase for Its Design Complexity to Increase – Part 1
| September 4, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Informatics, Physics, Self-Org. Theory |
The common belief is that adding disorder to a designed object will destroy the design (like a tornado passing through a city, to paraphrase Hoyle). Now if increasing entropy implies increasing disorder, creationists will often reason that “increasing entropy of an object will tend to destroy its design”. This essay will argue mathematically that this… more
After the Large Hadron Collider, what?
| August 13, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“The logic has been that an electron-positron machine would provide a much better environment that the LHC for detailed studies of physics at the TeV scale.” more
Here’s CERN’s latest official news on the Higgs-like particle
| August 1, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
One wonders, given the present and expected future economic situation, whether another collaboration like CERN will be at all likely … more
Did the Moon form like we thought?
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
The nice thing about science news is that it is not the summer reruns. There really can be new ideas. more
Evidence for an Engineered Universe
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Cell biology, Cosmology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science, Video |
In the next video for the Engineering and Metaphysics conference, we have our keynote speaker, Walter Bradley, author of The Mystery of Life’s Origin (the book which kicked off the Intelligent Design movement). Here Bradley presents an overview of the cosmological case for design. Lots of interesting information from the man who started it all!… more
The God particle: The cavalry arrived but SUSY wasn’t there.
| July 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“‘“There’s going to be a huge massacre of theoretical ideas in the next couple of years,’ predicts Joe Lykken, a theoretical physicist at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.” more
Does the Constructal Law Give Evidence of Design?
| July 17, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Biophysics, Books of interest, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Spirituality, Video |
In Bejan’s “Design in Nature”, Bejan promotes what he calls the “constructal law,” which states, “For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.” Bejan has denied that this relates at all to any… more
Cosmologists fight over winning universe lottery ticket
| July 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“It may well have been the liveliest hour and a half I’ve ever spent in the company of theoretical physicists.” more
Understanding the God particle questions via a useful flow chart
| July 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
However, if it is Saturday and work is simply out of the question, acquire all the understanding you need of the Higgs-like particle via THIS excellent flow chart. :- more
From the Why does anything exist? files …
| July 9, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Physics |
“‘If, as Aristotle remarked, philosophy begins with wonder, then it ends with Grünbaum,’ Holt writes.” more
Physicist Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts on Sal Cordova vs. Granville Sewell on 2nd Law Thermo
| July 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Physics |
“My (Nobel nominated) college professor used to ask a rhetorical question in his thermo class, ‘what is the entropy change of a cow after the butcher put a 22 calibre bullet through the brain?’” more
2nd Law of Thermodynamics — an argument Creationists and ID Proponents should NOT use
| July 4, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science |
ID proponents and creationists should not use the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to support ID. Appropriate for Independence Day in the USA is my declaration of independence and disavowal of 2nd Law arguments in support of ID and creation theory. Any student of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics will likely find Granville Sewell’s argument and similar… more