See Astronomers Reveal a Cosmic ‘Axis of Evil’ to learn: Astronomers are puzzled by the announcement that the masses of the largest objects in the universe appear to depend on which method is used to weigh them. … Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe containing thousands of galaxies like … [Read more…]
[While working on an ebook containing a large number of my weblog posting, I decided this article, The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 6. Adopting the Techniques of Negative Theology to Physics and Metaphysics, first published under that ugly title on 2007/03/09, provides a good summary of some of the fundamental, metaphysical aspects of … [Read more…]
As matters currently stand in theories about physical reality and in philosophical analyses of those theories, there are no signs of homogeneity in the nature of spacetime at various scales of time and space though some assume and others hope. In general, created being at the quantum level (think of ‘subatomic’ levels of energy changes … [Read more…]
[Because of its importance to ideas which have been simmering in my mind for years, I’m publishing a minor update of one of my first weblog entries: Symmetry-breaking, From Physics and Mathematics to Metaphysics first published on 2006/12/05. I’ll soon be publishing a new entry which builds on some aspects of the ideas in this … [Read more…]
You have weight when you’re not in free-fall, that is, you have weight when you are kept from traveling the shortest path, or geodesic geodesic, from your current location to the center of gravity of whatever system you’re in. When you’re weighed down, by your own bodily mass or that of other entities you are … [Read more…]
There is an argument of sorts being conducted in the Catholic Church between those who think the Fathers of the Vatican Council II erred in claiming God grants religious freedom to human beings and those who think Truth must always be served by…well, by serving some established view of the Truth. See Religious Freedom. Was … [Read more…]
Not only do I claim that the proper study of mankind is Creation; I also claim that the priority in that study for Christians in this mortal realm is the Body of Christ as it is developing in this mortal realm. This doesn’t mean that every human being should be a philosopher or physicist. It … [Read more…]
I’ve finished reading Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but I continue to think about the issues he raised. Some of his attempts to make sense of these “scientific revolutions” involve efforts to make sense of the language used by various groups of scientists. When talking about the need to use a assumption-loaded … [Read more…]
I’ve just finished reading Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He’s quite aware of the objective nature of reality but he speaks of major changes in understanding of the world leaving scientists (or others in different conversations) as if in a new world. Elsewhere he speaks a bit more reasonably of the scientist … [Read more…]
I’m about 2 years late in writing a follow-up to So What if the Human Mind is a Product of Evolution? published on 2009/05/05. For those who don’t follow the link to that earlier article, I’ll quote the first paragraph: Why do we resist changes in our beliefs about our selves, the world around us, … [Read more…]