Is the quantization of energy/mass a fundamental or an emergent characteristic of reality. Quantum mechanics assumes that it is fundamental because it defines all interactions within it in terms of its quantized properties while one could say that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity defines it in terms of an emergent property of continuous space-time manifold … Read more
Ockham’s razor is the idea that, in trying to understand something, getting unnecessary information out of the way is the fastest way to the truth or to the best explanation. For example Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is based on the relative simple concept of a curvature in a space-time metric. Granted the math required … Read more
In the 1920 American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble discovered that our universe isn’t static but was expanding. Ever since then, scientists have been trying to refine there measurement of size and rate of the universe’s expansion rate. However it is a hard thing to measurement. Presently their three primary the methods used to determine its … Read more
One of the enduring mysteries Einstein left us is what physically happens to the time dimension as one approach the speed of light. Is it replaced by another dimension as F. Eren ÇıracıoÄŸlu suggested in his comment to our article “What antimatter can tell us about the geometry of our world?” Mar. 31, 2016 or … Read more
Cosmologists have defined three different classifications of stars based on their elemental makeup. Population I or those that contain relatively large concentrations of the heavy metals, Population II or those that have much less and Population III which are composed entirely hydrogen, helium and very small amounts of lithium and beryllium no heavy metals. Although … Read more