Monthly Archives: October 2008
NASA makes every year more discoveries than Europeans could not make in 2000 years
In this article Lubos Motl talks about Sean Carroll’s Dark Photon paper that I wrote about yesterday. He too remarks that there is nothing new or ingenious in proposing dark species of existing light physical quantities. But I cannot agree … Continue reading
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Dark side physics or semantic variations on the hermeneutics of the dark
Judging by this attempt to dark humor in Dark Photons that we can imagine much more than a single species of dark matter; what if you had two different types of stable particles that carried dark charge? Then we’d be … Continue reading
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What is physical spacetime?
Space and time cannot be considered as separate entities, as Newton had assumed but must be considered together as a four-dimensional spacetime. Three spacelike dimensions and one timelike dimension account for the four spacetime dimensions. In the above description we … Continue reading
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Are we living in a photoshop universe?
Kip Thorne the Feynman professor of theoretical physics at Caltech in Gravity Probe-B pre-launch press conference in NASA headquarters on April 2, 2004 . . . so let me talk now about attempts to measure three aspects of warped spacetime … Continue reading
Physics owes humanity an apology
It’s true that there are things in physics I want changed because I believe they are wrong. The first one is the mythology physicists weaved around Coulomb’s experiment of 1784. 1. Coulomb experiment is a disgrace in physics Physics has … Continue reading
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A physical law is a habit of nature
Physical law is a habit of nature A correct physical law can never be removed, it is correct in its domain of validity. It can only be expanded. A look at the physical law page at Wikipedia proves that the … Continue reading
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Physics and semantics
1. What’s wrong with semantics? One of the most powerful scientific arguments physicists use to dismiss non-legal physics is to say “That’s just semantics.” In physics lingo this means you have just stepped out of legal physics and if you … Continue reading
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Mercury’s perihelion and Einstein’s General Relativity
Spyros wrote in response to Alberto’s comment that GR and Brans-Dicke theory are both relativistic theories of gravitation. It is true that BD can explain the precession of perihelia. However i was referring mainly to the impossibility of explaining this … Continue reading
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Science this week 3
Physics is nature is newton is as good a framework as any. Physics is only one of an infinitely possible representations of nature. Physicists are not crackpots but the faithful working for the Ministry of Natural Truth programming our perception … Continue reading
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Prometheus: A 2000 year old programming code
In Greek mythology Prometheus incurred the wrath of the Olympian gods by giving the secret of fire to men. As punishment Zeus condemned him to be chained to a rock by the seashore. That’s what happens when you piss off … Continue reading
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