Month: November 2017
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Cosmological Conjecture as Thought Experiment
Cosmophilosophical conjectures can function as thought experiments intended — not to scientifically demonstrate this of that — but to allow us to consider and feel our reality differently, at least for a few seconds, at least intuitively. Consider the following example: What if the very small (smaller than particles) and the very big (bigger than […]
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Physicists: A Dispute About What Science Is
“Physicists Can’t Agree on What Science Even Means Anymore”
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An Epistemic Controversy about Cosmic Inflation
A Scientific American article about the theory of inflation prompted a reply from a group of 33 physicists, along with a response from the article’s authors.
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Scientific Cosmology Today, by George F.R. Ellis
“Cosmology is today a precision science with masses of high quality data every increasing our understanding of the physical universe, but paradoxically theoretical cosmology is simultaneously increasingly proposing theories based on ever more hypothetical physics, or concepts that are untestable even in principle (such as the multiverse). We are also seeing ever more dogmatic claims […]
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