QUANTUM COSMOLOGY

Mainstream physics is in the midst of a welcome development, as a new theory by Petr Hořava has posed a serious challenge to Einstein's general relativity model. It has also vindicated many of Mr. Stolyarov's insights in "A Rational Cosmology."

This 87th essay of "A Rational Cosmology" warns of the dangers of today's hyper-specialized and intolerant scientific orthodoxy, which prevents the progress of human knowledge and inhibits the emergence of new Renaissance Men.

This 88th essay of "A Rational Cosmology" shows that simply because some theory, such as relativity or quantum mechanics, has produced useful practical results, does not mean that the theory is correct or reflects the world as it actually is.

Almost no concept has been either more elusive, nor its misinterpretations more damaging, than light. This 42nd essay of "A Rational Cosmology" explains the dangers of viewing light as a combination of "particles" and "waves," a view that has greatly damaged physics.

Precisely what an instantaneous velocity describes is no mere technicality -- it is essential to our knowledge of what motion is and how to take account of it. This 35th essay of "A Rational Cosmology" discusses what instantaneous velocities can tell us.

Contemporary science is often mired in a terrible superstition, which forms a glaring breach between its findings and the conclusions and observations ubiquitously available to any man whose five senses function properly. This is the fallacy of empiricism-positivism.

A look into parallel universes, fact or fiction?

A small and palatable taste of science.

Physics has four branches: Newtonian, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and String Theory. They don't contradict each other but offer different views about how mass, energy and the universe operate.

Paradoxes have haunted the world of physics for the past century. Two notable and often confused paradoxes are the paradoxes of Zermelo and Loschmidt. Other strange results come from quantum mechanics and general relativity.

One of the great unanswered questions in cosmology and physics is why time seems to run in only one direction, or time's arrow. Why is it that time only seems to run in one direction?

Masterfully written in layman terms, Endless Universe is an engrossing read about modern cosmology and where it stands, where the cyclical model has been added to several expansionist models of how the universe came to be as it is.

This is an ambitious work that presents much of modern cosmology in a form that is comprehensible to the intelligent layperson but that does not condescend nor omit critical technical points. It can be enjoyed by a very wide audience with respect to sophistication.

I'm not going to answer this question for you - but it is a question worth some consideration.

His life, his dreams,and his study of science

The laws of physics apply, in the present, past and future too, and still we would find it impossible to remember the future. Our Universe could be, part of a complex system, symmetrical towards time, so there could be other Universes where time moves backwards.

A brief discussion of God and modern science, from the Big Bang to free will.

The things we think we want the most are often neither what we thought they were nor so very hard to find at all. Solutions can arise if we simply look to where they are and not merely where we're told to look.

This essay explores the role of religious beliefs in wide reflective equilibrium (WRE), a popular view of normative philosophy of science.

For a little while, anyway, the success of Americans to upend U.S. Congress might actually initiate the beginning of a new era. Regardless how that all plays out, we still have Problems in River City - and TV and film might begin to work for us, as well.