[I apologise in advance, this may be one of the posts that I am unique in finding of value!] OK, lets ponder around an interesting quote from Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics. …there are different ways that physics can be unified, and we should be careful to distinguish them. So far we have been discussing …
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Contingency
I’ve read a couple of times recently the claim that Christianity supported the development of modern science with its view that the world is contingent. That is, that the universe could have been otherwise. This opens the way for empiricism to be a key part of studies of nature. I am not in a position …
unity and diversity
I once tried to bring the following question up at a lecture when I was a student. Nobody had a clue what I was talking about and I wished I’d never opened my mouth. I think it fits here, so lets drop it into the mix. Considering that it’s been in the back of my …