Tru Dat!
What is “truth” or “knowledge”? Can we have “alternative facts”, my reality vs your reality, or are ideas a simple black and white true or false? As with many things in life, the answer...
Category: General Science
Breaking Down Water to Put Out a Fire
“Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang...
Thinking Critically By Living In Other Worlds
“Thus I saw that most [people] only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang von...
Sure, But What Does It Predict?
He takes a bite of his bacon cheeseburger, “Medical providers don’t know how science works.” “Tell me about it!” I’m having dinner in a noisy sports bar in the Midwest with an applied mathematician with ties...
What Is Science and Why Do Medical Providers Suck At It?
It has been said that medicine skipped The Enlightenment since it was already a fully established profession at that time. Where the likes of Newton, Hooke, Huygens, etc. evolved “Natural Philosophy” into the sciences of physics,...
Does God Exist?
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??? IS HE REALLY GOING TO TAKE ON THIS QUESTION??? Easy now, fella. This is just a thought experiment about scientific questions and has almost nothing to do with God....
Inflation, BICEP2, and the Primordial B
On Twitter I retweeted a link that shows Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprising Professor Andrei Linde with evidence that supports cosmic inflation theory. He needed to sit down after hearing the news. This recent scientific discovery...
Uncertainty and The Simple-Minded
I’ve written in a previous post that reality keeps us from being 100% certain of any “truth”. This is why we have science and its flaming laser sword of falsifiability. But why is this...
It’s the Higgs, baby!
July 4, 2012 was a very big day. Yes, it was Independence Day in the United States, but that comes every year. On July 4, 2012, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) officially...
Science Series – Part 5: Seppuku and The Tooth Fairy
This is the final post of a 5-part series that I am writing on science and PT practice. If you have not read Parts 1 – 4, do that first before reading any further… Uh...