science – Thomas Carrington / /blog Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:21:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 4274030 /2020/03/03/1885/ /2020/03/03/1885/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:21:43 +0000 /?p=1885

This is crazy!

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The Celsius scale was born in 1742, globally endorsed in 1948 and got its modern definition in 1967. Late bloomer.

]]> /2020/02/07/1872/feed/ 0 1872 /2019/04/08/1691/ /2019/04/08/1691/#respond Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:36:31 +0000 /2019/04/08/1691/ Article claiming acupuncture on parents would treat their kids through quantum entanglement has been retracted

I love Retraction watch!

]]> /2019/04/08/1691/feed/ 0 1691 /2018/11/18/1649/ /2018/11/18/1649/#respond Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:23:32 +0000 /?p=1649 Kilogram gets a new definition

“Currently, it is defined by the weight of a platinum-based ingot called “Le Grand K” which is locked away in a safe in Paris. On Friday, researchers meeting in Versailles voted to get rid of it in favour of defining a kilogram in terms of an electric current. The decision was made at the General Conference on Weights and Measures“.

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If time, as we perceive it, is a function of human cognition and perception then how could music, as we perceive it, not be a human “construct”. Nevertheless, this is the stuff you use when you want to blow minds. Also, Isaac Newton. Was he human though? I am not entirely convinced.

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Seems like this is, at least partial, validation of calls by people like Sam Harris for a more direct study of human consciousness (and other, non-human, types, if at all possible).

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New Science from Jupiter.

]]> /2018/05/05/1422/feed/ 0 1422 /2017/08/04/in-this-sense-science-as-physicist-steven-weinberg-has-emphasized-does-not-make-it-impossible-to-believe-in-god-but-rather-makes-it-possible-to-not-believe-in-god-without-science-everything-is/ /2017/08/04/in-this-sense-science-as-physicist-steven-weinberg-has-emphasized-does-not-make-it-impossible-to-believe-in-god-but-rather-makes-it-possible-to-not-believe-in-god-without-science-everything-is/#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:40:38 +0000 /2017/08/04/in-this-sense-science-as-physicist-steven-weinberg-has-emphasized-does-not-make-it-impossible-to-believe-in-god-but-rather-makes-it-possible-to-not-believe-in-god-without-science-everything-is/ “In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God. Without science, everything is a miracle. With science, there remains the possibility that nothing is. Religious belief in this case becomes less and less necessary, and also less and less relevant” (Krauss, 2012, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, p. 182).

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