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Showing posts with label natural philosophy. Show all posts

Showing posts with label natural philosophy. Show all posts

Thursday, April 04, 2024

Aristotle's Toy Universe

The title might sound condescending, but "toy" is meant in a sense similar to that in a physicist's "toy model," an ...

Tuesday, August 01, 2023

A Mechanical Superstition

Just a hot take regarding this short video: A Bet Against Quantum Gravity (6.75 mins). I don't have the credentials in the field to e...

Sunday, May 07, 2023

The Fright of Infinite Spaces

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. —Pascal, Pensées , 206 It's well known that the Milky Way in the Star T...

Sunday, April 23, 2023

The Greater Does Not Come from the Less

I've been reading Garrigou-Lagrange's Providence . Perhaps its most foundational principle, highlighted in the first paragraph: ...

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Sean Carroll and Emergentism

With excitement a Catholic physicist friend pointed me to a recent paper by Sean Carroll Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space . Carroll, as ...

Thursday, November 19, 2020

The magic is back!

Existential Comics had a funny and funnily true Facebook post a couple years ago that's worth remembering: Science has been the slo...

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