Is Free Will Real? Religions have been founded on the concept that human beings have free will. We’ve accepted this idea as dogma. The relationship between the anointed god and all the events that sum up a person’s life is based on god allowing people to do as they please. Read more…
Capricorn Science touched on this subject very briefly a year or so ago. It was a touch-and-go article looking to entice the reader into exploring this revolutionary subject. Just imagine if the now famous black holes located throughout spacetime could be made of pure data. Also, we live in a Read more…
Reference: “Estimation of the information contained in the visible matter of the universe” by Melvin M. Vopson 10 Oct., 20201. SciTechDaily “Estimate measures information encoded in particles opens a door to practical experiment.” 6 x 10 to 80th-degree bits of information: “postulates how much information could be compressed into a Read more…
Social media has a lot to say about children no longer being taught how to read or write in cursive. The complaints were about how younger generations could not understand important documents from the past. There is more to this. Let’s take a look. I witnessed the discussion about cursive Read more…
Those of us who like to read do so incessantly. As a voracious reader with a decent memory, I tend to recall what I have read in the past to what I am reading in the present and establish trends and patterns. This is interesting to me. Probably not to Read more…
“Apparently, the FBI raid is part of an investigation launched by the National Archives and the Records Administration. They’re coming for you, baby! That’s right, he’s going to get taken down by the librarians. They’re organized, they know where everything is, and you never know which way they’re comin’ from, Read more…
We chose a frilly summer flower image to help ease our minds and feel refreshed. A question that has been grating in my mind for a very long time is why does humanity not see climate change as an imminent death threat. The blindness I notice in people has me Read more…
Scientists estimate the probability of anyone being born at about ONE IN 400 TRILLION! How are these numbers calculated? 1-Probability of your parents’ meeting: 1 in 20,000. 2-Probability of the same boy knowing this one girl: ONE IN 2,000. 3-Probability of right sperm meeting the right egg: ONE IN 400 Read more…
Last week scientists were all over the place, in a frenzy, announcing the birth of Xenobots. Xeno What? you may be asking yourself. Well if you missed it, they are PacMan-shaped blobs that have become the world’s first self-replicating biological robots. Xenobots. The New York Times calls them ” Virtual Read more…
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59476869 NASA announced this morning that the James Webb telescope launch date has been changed from December 23 to December 25. The reason for the delay was weather conditions. I hope this BBC link opens and allows you to get the whole idea of this marvelous twenty-year project. It’s a Read more…
Intuition can ignite the truth when we encounter it. ” Remember. We are energy, not memory.” My mind continued to play with this thought as if it were a pebble being twirled in my hand, rolling it around and around. What are we really? While writing for this blog about Read more…
In short, space-time would contain the entire history of reality, with each past, present or future event occupying a clearly determined place in it, from the very beginning and forever. The past would therefore still exist, just the future already exists, but somewhere other than where we are now present. Read more…
During the past couple of days, we’ve covered the subjects of the components of light; the Big Bang is time real, the shape of the universe, seeing the past, finding the edge of the universe, and the probability that everything has already happened. These info pods will not qualify any Read more…
We don’t invent these stories. We don’t even seek them out. They find us so we walk the walk and read, research, think, analyze, and summarize the data. Just when I started thinking that no one is paying attention to the events surrounding our planet and the possible outcome of Read more…
( From my garden) In biology, genotype refers to the genetic material passed between generations, and phenotype, is observable characteristics of an organism. An organism’s phenotype is determined by it’s genotype; which is the set of genes the organism carries, as well as by environmental influences upon these genes. (www.nature.com) Read more…
In the same manner that Newton did not invent gravity but brilliantly observed the “apple falling to Earth” pulled by an invisible force. Newton built a school of mathematics to explain his observations. That is how every discovery meets invention. Following a similar path Leonardo Fibonacci was considered to be Read more…
We are witnesses, every day, of the carnage children are being submitted in the USA. Their little minds wonder it they will make it back home alive. Is today the day their faces will be blown off while policemen stand outside and wanna-be politicians deliver make-believe sorrowful speeches about this Read more…
An Oxford Professor, Dr. Alex Connock, invited an AI (artificial intelligence software) to participate in a debate at the Oxford Union on the ethics of AI. These are some of the machines responses: “AI will never be ethical“, argued Megatron-Turing Language Generation model. “It is a tool, and like any Read more…
The 21 grams experiment refers to a scientific study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change Read more…
