Buzz Blog: Getting Einstein to Say "I Was Wrong". An interesting post about how slow Albert Einstein was to accept the expanding universe cosmology. It demonstrates that all of us, no matter how brilliant, are often unable to see past our own blind spots. Of course, most of us would love to have Einstein's hit … Continue reading Buzz Blog: Getting Einstein to Say “I Was Wrong”
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8 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution
An interesting article at io9: 8 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution. For most of the time that modern humans have existed on the planet, we've been hunter gatherers. It's not until about 10,000 or so years ago that people started settling down and farming, with civilization cranking up around 5000 years ago. … Continue reading 8 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution
Goldstein: The Vindication of Spinoza
Rebecca Goldstein has an interesting post on BigThink about Baruch Spinoza and how prescient many of his ideas were. Spinoza's conception of God was the one believed in by Einstein. This conception, often summarized as being equivalent to the laws of nature, is an example of the wide diversity of notions that the word 'God' … Continue reading Goldstein: The Vindication of Spinoza
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Tim Maudlin on Fine Tuning
A very interesting article. I’ve never been too impressed by fine tuning arguments. To me, they’ve always sounded like, “the universe is fined tuned to produce…the universe we have”. But this article does a good job of summing up the issues and is well worth the time.
Cosmology group researcher Tim Maudlin has a great post in Aeon Magazine about cosmic fine-tuning. Read it there and feel free to discuss it in the comments here!
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