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Sensitive subject among scientists: new mega prizes

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

Last year several new science prizes were launched. The monetary awards are much bigger than the Nobel Prize. Zeeya Merali wrote an interesting article about this in the Nature journal. http://www.nature.com/news/science-prizes-the-new-nobels-1.13168 This is a sensitive subject among the scientists because … Continue reading →

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Past is a particle, future is a wave

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

I am reading John D. Barrow’s book “the Book of Universes.” This is one of the best books I have read in recent years. This is a very readable book. There are human stories in it too. Cosmologists are very … Continue reading →

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Coupling between past and future

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

Prediction is the hardest intellectual problem. It seems that we need to know everything about the Cosmos to predict the future accurately. I am not sure that even omniscience is enough because there is an intrinsic uncertainty in the Cosmos. … Continue reading →

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Nonlocal Correlations in Quantum Mechanics

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

I hope to write more on this subject in the future. I posted this on the Knol platform originally. Knol does not exist anymore but this one deserves to be read I thought. The article by Nicholas Gisin titled “Quantum … Continue reading →

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Mars Curiosity

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ I watched a documentary on NASA’s Curiosity rover with teary eyes. It may be surprising for non-scientists to hear that scientists can be so emotional over a technical and scientific matter! My tears were the tears of happiness because … Continue reading →

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Ontology of Energy

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

Time has come for a discussion of the ontology of energy. Let’s discuss it without academic pretense and dogmatism. Before I start, I would like to point out that I have been enjoying David Yerle’s essays recently. I have read … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Memory

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

When I was a teenager I dreamed of inventing a device that would record our thoughts. Recording the memory portion of the thought was a big part of that invention. In those days technology was primitive. Now, there are a … Continue reading →

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New Perspective on Unification

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

Please read this as an outline of a research program. This is a rough sketch of what I want to write about in the future. Unification is not about nature Unification is not about nature. Nature is unified anyway. Unification … Continue reading →

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Divine Time, Causal Time, Physical Time

Posted on February 9, 2013 by

Discussion of time will never end. We will never exhaust this subject. My short review today was inspired by a dear friend who has been thinking deeply on the subject of time and asking me difficult questions. I cannot answer … Continue reading →

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Hiding the Time Dimension

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

I am posting this in the early minutes of December 21, 2012 in the NY/NJ area. Everyone has been talking about the cycles: Earth cycles, solar cycles and the galactic cycles. On this first day of the new age I … Continue reading →

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Phase enables relativity

Posted on December 16, 2012 by

Physicists are experts at assigning new meanings to the terms established in common language. I mentioned the term “dual” or “duality” before. In common language dual means two. In physics dual means equivalent. Physicists use the word “phase” in different … Continue reading →

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Textual Analysis and Psychological Dictionaries

Posted on November 17, 2012 by

It is becoming common these days for researchers to comb through and process large data sets such as tweets and other web based data. The purpose of such research is to determine the general mood of the society. Researchers are … Continue reading →

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No Thermal Death for the Universe

Posted on October 20, 2012 by

In 2011 the Nobel Prize in physics was shared by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Prior to their research we knew … Continue reading →

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Not all scientists are atheists

Posted on October 20, 2012 by

Huffpost Science (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/science/) is doing an excellent job. I congratulate their editors. Their news articles are very informative and readable. But, I have mixed feelings about their blog entries. Huffpost Science editors are very smart. They know how to maximize … Continue reading →

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Fundamental Physics Prize

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

The Milner Foundation announced the Fundamental Physics Prize today. This is a US$3 million prize. It is almost 3 times bigger than the Nobel Prize in terms of money. Monetary value of Nobel Prize is US$1.1 million. The Nobel Prize … Continue reading →

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Essays by Suresh Emre

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

A new synthesis of Spiritual Philosophy is presented in Definitions and Summary of Soul Monism I volunteer for the Renaissance Universal (RU) movement. A Vision for a Universal Renaissance. The complete list of my articles is given in http://sureshemre.wordpress.com/index/  

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Anaximander of Miletus

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

Anaximander (ca.610 BC – ca.546 BC) was a philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia in Asia Minor (Anatolia). He was a student of Thales. He succeeded Thales and became the teacher of Anaximenes and Pythagoras. He made … Continue reading →

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Thales of Miletus

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

Thales of Miletus (ca.624 BC – ca.546 BC), was a philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor (Anatolia). Physicists consider him as the first physicist in history. His writings did not survive. The major source for Thales’ philosophy and science is Aristotle. … Continue reading →

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Concept of Time: Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

“Time is not an eternal factor. Because what is time? It is mental reckoning of the motivity of action. This mental reckoning of the motivity of action [means that] where there is no action, there cannot be any time.” [1] … Continue reading →

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A Commentary on “Vibration, Form and Colour”

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

In his essay titled “Vibration, Form and Colour” [1], Shrii Shrii Anandamurti reminded us the following facts: Each “vibration” has “form” Each “form” has “colour” Therefore, each “vibration” must have “colour” as well. What is vibration? Shrii Shrii Anandamurti tells … Continue reading →

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Key Questions of Particle Physics

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Are there undiscovered principles of nature: new symmetries, new physical laws? How can we solve the mystery of dark energy? Dark energy that permeates empty space must have a quantum explanation. Is it related to the Higgs field? Are there … Continue reading →

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Elementary Particle Facts

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Every fermion (spin=1/2 particle) type has an anti-particle type. If the fermion has electric charge then the electric charge of the anti-fermion is the opposite of that of the fermion. For example, electron has -1 electric charge. The anti-electron (positron) … Continue reading →

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Gravity binds us

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

We know how strong the gravity is. Humans built powerful rockets to escape gravity. If gravity was weak we would not have to build such powerful rockets. Black holes are formed when massive stars collapse under their own weight. If … Continue reading →

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