Click Here to Read: The philosophical problems of cosmology: A deep-dive into the foundations of cosmology by George Ellis on the iai News website on September 22, 3021.
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The Pursuit of Truth: What is a scientific paradigm?
THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: What is a scientific paradigm? Richard Koenigsberg
Victor Gijsbers
Victor Gijsbers provides the best explication and discussion of the concept of a scientific paradigm that I’ve seen, heard, read–anywhere. Required listening (only 10 minutes long).
Click Here to View: first video is called, “Thomas Kuhn, Normal Science.”
Paradigm: all the theories, concepts, methods and measuring instruments that a scientific discipline takes for granted and that directs research in that discipline. Continue reading The Pursuit of Truth: What is a scientific paradigm?
Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report
The Assault on Empiricism
Click Here to Read: From crime to climate change, the hostility of ‘movements’ to data is making it impossible to address real-world problems BY Wilfred Reilly on the Tablet website on August 11, 2021.
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Hints of a new fundamental force
Is space infinite? We asked 5 experts
Colliding photons were spotted making matter
Click Here to Read: Colliding photons were spotted making matter. But are the photons ‘real’? In a demonstration of Einstein’s E=mc2, collisions of light yielded electrons and positrons By Emily Conover on the Science News website on August 9, 2021.
Beamline at Brookhaven National Laboratory Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
