Modern science owns much of its success to its ability to define a common causality of related events. For example, Isaac Newton discovered law of gravity when he realized the casualty of an event like the moon orbiting the earth and objects falling were related. He then defined a common causality for both of these … Read more
For the past 25 years, the Standard Model of particle physics has given us a complete mathematical description of the particles and forces that shape our world. Its predictions have matched experimental data, decimal place for decimal place, with amazing precision. But for all of its successes it still cannot be considered the ultimate theory … Read more
Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theories of have been the most successful scientific theories of modern times however; attempts to unify them and define “A Theory of Everything” have been unsuccessful. This is because there exists an incompatibility between the microscopic universe described by quantum mechanics and the macroscopic universe described by Einstein’s theories regarding the … Read more
or should observations define mathematics? Presently physicists use two different methods to quantify our understanding of the universe. The first or traditional method is to allow observations to define mathematics. In other words, they observed how the components of their environment interact and based on those observations derive equations that could explain those interactions. For … Read more
How should we define reality? This question is especially relevant for the scientists who struggle on a daily basis to help us understand the "inner" reality of our universe. Some define it based on a quantitative mathematical analysis of observations. For example, Quantum mechanics defines the "reality" or state of a quantum system in terms … Read more