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- Gaussian curvature
- CERN Courier article on the neutrino mass puzzle
- Hydrogen: an inexhaustible subject
- Martian calendar
- New findings on the mechanical properties of the proton
- On Categorization
- 2024 update on the location of the magnetic north pole
- Saturation of AI creativity in the future
- Assembly Theory, Integrated Information Theory
- Invariants
- Atlas of nearby galaxies
- Mind Atoms
- Is spin=1/2 an indication of maximum confinement?
- Experimental value of muon g-2 updated
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- History of FERMILAB by Valerie Higgins
- Update on electron’s electric dipole moment
- Few Trends (2)
- Update on major US accelerator projects
- Free textbooks in the field of particle physics
- Is interaction a computation?
- Why is the quantum uncertainty intrinsic?
- Why did God make the world quantum rather than classical?
- Semantic Similarity
- Astronomy Simulations
- Milky Way stellar disk is warped in its outer regions
- On the conservation of information
- What is information?
- Probability, information and Shannon entropy
- Physics of Life: A Free Book by the National Academies of Sciences-Engineering-Medicine
- What is the difference between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology?
- Update on neutron lifetime (mirror neutron hypothesis falsified)
- Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery
- So much creative talent is wasted
- Reality+ (new book by David J. Chalmers)
- Closure Problem of Emergence
- Learning to trust our intuition
- Excitement about the new value of the W boson mass
- CLA (circle, line, angle) symbolism
- First sentence of a book
- Truth
- Zero mass but non-zero weight
- Is it possible for the brain to use backpropagation?
- Grand idea of Semantic Web is dying
- The Mysterious Google PageRank Algorithm
- A Lecture on Falsafa by Nicholas Heer
- Artificial Associative Memory
- Open access to Turkish academic journals
- Symmetry Magazine’s “Quantum Ecosystem” articles
- Latest on proton and antiproton charge-to-mass ratio
- Citation statistics in scientific categories
- Live status of JWST
- Different kinds of distance
- Different kinds of entropy
- Unification themes in physics
- Neutrino resources
- David Mumford’s thoughts on consciousness
- Three kinds of neutrinos – no more, no less
- CERN LHC beams return after 3 years
- Hubble tension
- It is all quiet on the particle physics front
- Can electron be split in topological insulators?
- Progress report on scientific research in Turkey
- Concept of dimension revisited
- My first conversation with GPT-3
- Centennial of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
- First results from Fermilab muon g-2 experiment: more confusion
- Still here
- John Preskill’s lectures (CALTECH quantum computing course)
- Latest finding from SWARM studying Earth’s magnetic field
- Number of papers published by the Large Hadron Collider collaborations
- A survey of young particle physicists in Europe
- A brief history of hadron colliders
- Are we oversimplifying?
- On vacuum fluctuations
- Duality Rotation
- Coupling
- Orthogonality
- Connectivity, Interaction, Communication
- Three Number Systems (thanks to John Baez for reminder)
- My response to Wolchover’s question: What is a particle?
- How do we know vacuum fluctuations exist?
- Reading CERN Courier (2)
- Tropes in Physics
- Basics of Theoretical Computer Science
- Volcanoes of Anatolia
- Fiber Bundles in Physics
- Reviewed and updated QM articles
- dimensions-math.org
- Bifurcating self-interaction concept of Frank van den Bovenkamp
- Roger Penrose wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
- Do not confuse spin direction with spin magnitude
- Lake Baikal
- Experimental verification of Higgs boson couplings to elementary particles
- Physics Education in the United States (statistics)
- First observation of W-boson pair creation from two photons
- Latest on the Element Lithium
- Fourth type of neutrino does not exist
- Lepton universality is verified (no new physics)
- Guest post by Richard Gauthier: Natural Laws and Mysticism in the Cosmic Cycle of Creation
- Semiotic Closure
- Individuality and Collectivity
- Confinement and Liberation
- Comments on universe being a fluctuation
- Universe is not a fluctuation
- How to implement random article pointer in JavaScript
- Ignoring Agency is Ignorance
- Machine Learning Interview Questions
- Large refugee waves to Anatolia in recent centuries
- Happy to learn Maldacena’s thoughts on the relationship between vacuum fluctuations and spacetime stretching
- Theoretical value of muon g-2 updated
- What percentage of scientists are atheists?
- The non-gauge nature of the newly discovered forces
- Concept of Gauge Invariance
- Stephen Wolfram’s Theory of Everything
- Few Research Directions in Systems Neuroscience
- Guest Post by Richard Gauthier on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
- Notes (May 2020)
- Reading CERN Courier (1)
- Howard H. Pattee and the Physics of Symbols
- Neutrinos and Antineutrinos Change Flavors at Different Rates
- Quantum Mechanics, Probability, Covid-19 Analogy
- No useful theory of biological neural computation yet
- Interesting anecdote about Roger Penrose as told by Carlo Rovelli
- On the transformation of neutrino into electron
- Conservation Laws of Particle Interactions
- How to create antiprotons
- Free Book Commemorating the 25’th Anniversary of the Simons Foundation
- 2020 update on the location of the magnetic north pole
- My obsession with the pageview count
- Brookhaven Electron-Ion Collider
- Dark Energy Controversies
- Useful metaphysics
- Hedda H. Mørch, John Horgan, Pandeism
- Mirror World
- James Schombert’s lectures on cosmology
- Univon
- Academic Rankings of Top Turkish Universities
- Notes (November 2019)
- Multiplication table of shapes
- Did you know electron can pass through the proton in a hydrogen atom?
- Only integer changes of spin are observed in particle interactions
- What is the name of the super-massive black hole at the center of Milky Way?
- Latest news and discussion on Google’s quantum supremacy experiment
- Hydrogen molecule looks like this
- Richard Gauthier’s “Them from Ylem” proposal
- Notes (October 2019)
- Graph Theory Concepts
- Keep going
- Hubble constant: 5 sigma separation between 67 and 73 (km/s)/Mpc
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Phillip Gibbs on Temporal and Ontological Causality
This is my second post in the “causality” series. The first one was: Difference between correlation and causation Phillip Gibbs said that “after all nobody is going to cite this” but I appreciated his 2013 summary [1]. His comments on … Continue reading
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Tagged Causality, ontological causality, philosopgy, physics, temporal causality
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Difference between correlation and causation
This is the first article in my “causality” series. Please see the index for a list of the other posts in this series. In my day job I deal with probability and statistics. I use words like correlation, standard error … Continue reading
Posted in physics, probability, science, statistics
Tagged Causality, causation, correlation, economics, physics, Probability, science, Social Sciences, Statistics
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The Adjustment Bureau is working extra hard these days
The Adjustment Bureau starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon is one of my favorite movies. I can’t remember exactly how many times I have seen this movie but it must have been at least 5 times. I see many parallels … Continue reading
Posted in spiritual philosophy, spiritual practice, spirituality
Tagged Spiritual Growth, spiritual philosophy, Spiritual practice, spirituality
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Theoretical Aspects of Ego
This is the 7th installment of my “ego” series. The first six were: Observing Ego Knowing ego No anger, no envy Selfishness Over-intellectualism Transparent Ego All six deal with the practical aspects of ego in the context of spiritual practice. … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Psychology, theories of ego
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Transparent Ego
This is the 6th installment of my “ego” series. The first five were: Observing Ego Knowing ego No anger, no envy Selfishness Over-intellectualism I ended the 3rd installment by saying ‘if ego is an obstacle to reach happiness then ego … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Spiritual practice
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Over-intellectualism
This is the 5th installment of my “ego” series. The first four were: Observing Ego Knowing ego No anger, no envy Selfishness Over-intellectualism is another dimension of ego. Over-intellectualism is seen in the sneering attitude. Many intellectuals sneer when the … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Spiritual practice
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Selfishness
This is the 4th installment of my “ego” series. The first three were: Observing Ego Knowing ego No anger, no envy Selfishness is another dimension of the ego. I have been accused of selfishness numerous times. My selfishness stemmed from … Continue reading
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No anger, no envy
This is the 3rd installment of my “ego” series. The first two installments were: Observing Ego Knowing ego In Sufism, when they describe the ideal human being (Insan-i Kamil), they always mention the ‘no anger, no envy’ aspect of that … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Spiritual practice
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Knowing Ego
This is the 2nd installment of my “ego” series. The first installment was: Observing Ego When I was young I did not consider ego and spirituality to be in the same context. Back then I had an intellectual conception of … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Spiritual practice
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Observing Ego
This is the first article in my “ego” series. Please see the index for a list of the other posts in this series. I have a feeling that the visual expressions of spiritual surrender bothers people. More accurately, ego is … Continue reading
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Tagged ego, Spiritual practice
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We are in your hands, God!
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Tagged acceptance, devotion, God, prayer, prostration, spiritual surrender, spirituality, suffering
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David Chalmers on Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism
David Chalmers is my favorite philosopher. I mentioned him in 4 other posts: Academic Studies of Consciousness On the fascination with zombies On different definitions of Monism Narcissistic mystic against scientific materialism David Chalmers is an important thinker. I recommend … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged David Chalmers, elementary particles, panprotopsychism, Panpsychism, philosophy
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Baba’s favorite Kabir poems
Baba (Shrii Shrii Anandamurti) often mentioned the great mystic poet Kabir in many of his discourses. Kabir lived in North India in the 15′th century. Very little is known about his life but his poetry still resonates deeply in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Kabir, poetry, spirituality
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Baba’s favorite Tagore poems
Baba (Shrii Shrii Anandamurti) loved Tagore poems and recited Tagore poems in his discourses. The picture of Tagore on the left is from 1913 (Nobel picture) Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Bengali poetry, mystic poetry, poetry, spiritual philosophy
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Live map of the winds across the Earth
The live map of the winds across the Earth Once the image comes up you can rotate the Earth image using your mouse (click on the image and move the mouse while pressing the mouse button) and see the green … Continue reading
Posted in geophysics, science
Tagged geology, geophysics, science
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Edge Organization’s Annual Questions and the Responses by the Leading Intellectuals
Edge.org is an online forum bringing together the intellectuals and scientists from different fields. I enjoy their annual questions and the responses by the leading intellectuals. Here’s the links to the responses. The year and the question is in the … Continue reading
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Why is gravity so different from other forces?
Here’s the relative strengths of the 4 known forces of nature Image credit There are speculative ideas as to why the relative strength of gravity is much weaker compared to the other forces. In my opinion this is not an apples-to-apples … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Electromagnetism, Gravitation, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Nuclear force, physics, Weak interaction
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Quanta Magazine (Simons Foundation)
The Quanta Magazine is a new scientific magazine published online by an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation. You can reach the magazine at: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/ “Quanta Magazine is an online publication whose mission is to enhance public understanding of … Continue reading
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Tagged Math, Quanta Magazine, Simons Foundation
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Those who walk in darkness shall see a great light
I wanted to share Barbara Cannon’s opening remarks at the Nobel ceremonies. This is one of the most eloquent speeches I have ever heard. She quoted Prophet Isaiah who said “those who walk in darkness shall see a great light.” … Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, François Englert, Haji Bektash Veli, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Nobel Prize in Physics, Peter Higgs, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
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Electronic Edition of the Works of P.R.Sarkar (Shrii Shrii Anandamurti)
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (May 21, 1921 – October 21, 1990), also known by his spiritual name Shrii Shrii Anandamurti was one of the highest expressions of Universal Teacher in human history. He was the founder of Ananda Marga. He was … Continue reading
Posted in history, inspiration, Intuitional Science, linguistics, literature, philosophy, poetry, psychology, science, society, spiritual philosophy, spiritual practice, spirituality, yoga
Tagged Ananda Marga, Baba, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Religion and Spirituality, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, Spiritual practice, Tantra, Universal Teacher, yoga
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Spiritual quantum jump
In my previous post, I described my initiation experience in Istanbul in 1980. Dada K. (the meditation teacher who initiated me) returned to India in 1981. He has been living in India since then. I have not seen him or … Continue reading
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Tagged Ananda Marga, Baba, Divine grace, Enlightenment, India, Istanbul, Meditation, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Religion and Spirituality, Spiritual practice, Transcendental Meditation, yoga
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Initiation
The year of 1980 was a turning point in my life. In the summer of 1980 the social unrest in Turkey was getting out of control. On September 12, 1980 the military took over the government promising to end the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ananda Marga, India, Istanbul, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Rabindranath Tagore, Shrii Anandamurti, sufism, Tantra, Turkey
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Suresh Emre
Renaissance Universal 