Directory of Essays About Math
and Science
This document was most recently revised on Monday, November
1, 2010.
These essays challenge some of the sacred cows of science.
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| | In this essay, I advocate that there was never
a Big Bang, that the red shift isn't a Doppler effect, that the universe
will never end, and a few other interesting things. |
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| | An earlier version of Cosmology and the Law
of Parsimony was published on pages 25-28 of the March/April 2004 issue,
Volume 22, No. 2, Issue #139, of The Thought, the bimonthly journal
of the Philosophers Guild. The website of the Philosophers Guild
has vanished. Therefore, I've posted here a copy of that issue of
The
Thought. If there's any objection from the Philosopher's Guild
to the appearance here of that issue, then I'll remove it.
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Notice that the contact information shown in the version of the article
published in The Thought is out-of-date. If you want to contact
me, then use the contact information that's provided on this website. |
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| | There isn't any such thing as space-time. |
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| | When I first heard about the Hale-Bopp Comet,
I wrote this little essay. In the essay, I speculated that the object
wasn't a comet at all but was, instead, an approaching generation ship.
I suggested that the occupants of the ship were using a light sail to decelerate
into our solar system. I was wrong. Here's the essay anyway. |
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| | Do you believe that it's impossible for an arrow
to reach it's target? Do you believe that it's impossible to divide
by zero? The proof is in the pie. |
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