Essays About Math and Science
These essays challenge some of the sacred cows of science.
Cosmology and the Law of Parsimony
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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.
An earlier version of this essay was also published in the March/April
2004 issue, Volume 22, No. 2, Issue #139, of The Thought, the bimonthly
Journal of the Philosophers Guild.
There isn't any such thing as space-time.
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.
| There's An Arrow In The Logic - or - Who Says
Pie Are Square? |
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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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