There are three fundamental ways science uses mathematics and observations to understand the reality of our world. The first involves developing a mathematical description by directly observing how its components interact. For example, Isaac Newton developed his law of gravity by observing the movement of planets and realizing that they could be understood by assuming … Read more
Reality is what our conciseness tells us it is while at the same time reality defines our conciseness. In other words we assume we are conscience beings because we can perceive a world outside of ourselves however that world is created by our conscience ability to interpret it or as Friedrich Nietzsche put it “There … Read more
Does anyone else have problems with the bazaar explanations that many in the scientific community expect the non-scientists to accept? For example many scientists try to convince the uninformed and less educated that we and all other things exist only after a human has observed them. Well that’s not quite true. According to the Copenhagen … Read more
Most physicists would agree that one of the primary goals of their discipline is to explain why the laws of nature are what they are. However there is very little consensus on how to achieve it. For example, there are some who believe the best way is to observe the environment and then extrapolate those … Read more
Thomas Kuhn in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“, defines a new paradigm as one which replaces a previous worldview with a new one and changes our fundamental understanding of reality while describing the difficultly that those with revolutionary thoughts have in getting their ideas considered. For example the Church at the time of … Read more