Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Advances in Electromagnetism: Phases in Faraday’s Career

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The British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday is credited with a long list of discoveries and inventions. His work paved the way for man...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

What Did Einstein Write? Does God Gamble?

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Albert Einstein seems to have been a one-man factory of memorable quotes and aphorisms, producing them in large quantities. His large outp...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

A Debatable Word: Defining ‘Atheism’

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Among both philosophers and non-philosophers, the word ‘atheism’ appears in a variety of different types of text. It is uttered in conversat...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Can Time Run Backward? Boltzmann’s Statistical Understanding

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Time has long fascinated physicists for many reasons, but perhaps chiefly because of the four dimensions — three spatial and one temporal — ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Edward Teller: Physics and Politics

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Edward Teller was born in Hungary in 1908, and moved to the United States in 1935. In 1942, he became part of the Manhattan Project, and in ...
Monday, March 11, 2024

The Earth’s Carrying Capacity is Larger Than Expected

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What is the link between China’s population policy and the enduring hypothesis that the planet Earth can support only a relatively small pop...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Can There Be Competing Monisms? Is There a Real Difference Between Materialism and Idealism?

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The majority of metaphysical systems which one studies, from the pre-Socratics to the present day, can be lodged in one of two categories: d...