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Less than one month ago, CERN data published in Nature shows (with 5-sigma certainty) that beauty baryons violate CP-symmetry which does not fit in the Standard Model. Well, if you understand what science is all about, you rejoice and feel some excitement as old Gods are slowly taken down once more as we go deeper down the rabbit hole, but if you are stubborn and believe in the God of the Gaps, you smirk, quote your favorite holy book and double down on your ignorance. Sadly, there are a lot more of the latter folk on this Earth.
7 Megaparsecs black hole jet?
Sep. 25th, 2024 07:43 amIt appears that at least one black hole emitted 7 Megaparsec long jet structure (i.e. over 22 million light years) about 5 Gyr after the Big Bang (or about 9 billion years ago). That this jet structure is still visible today, is amazing. I wonder if black holes are effectively mini-Big Bangs and THE Big Bang is just a periodic singularity black hole that forms once in a while (as all previous black holes collapse into one).
Wolfram's Theory of Everything and AI
Jan. 31st, 2024 12:23 pmStephen Wolfram gave a TED talk in Oct 2023 about AI and the Universe. He mentioned the concept of ruliad (a term which he coined) and Rulial Space. His TOE (i.e. NKS v2, coming from his WPP) was mostly panned by scientists (as "Wolfram's results are non-quantitative and arbitrary"), a fate similar to the reception of his NKS. In a way, Wolfram's NKS and TOE are no more than small improvements on Konrad Zuse's 1969 Calculating Space.
Hawking's last cosmological theory
Sep. 30th, 2023 10:01 amFor some reason, BBC fed me an April interview with Hertog about his new book, On the Origin of Time. The article was very shallow, so I looked for other reviews and introductions to this theory and found a few good ones: Vinita Srivastava's article in The Conversation and a 2018 editorial on phys.org about the Hertog-Hawking "A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?" recent paper on this new top-down cosmology theory. The editorial even hints that new theory might be falsifiable (not an easy feat for grand cosmological theories).
While digging around Stephen Hawking's thinking evolution from his A Brief History of Time to the new theory, I found out that Hawking thought that philosophy is dead (since scientists make it obsolete). I found this idea of his highly ironic and unnecessary given that most scientists are mere cogs and only few of the governors of the scientific machinery get glimpses at the true nature of things (and then philosophize about it since they rarely propose truly 100% falsifiable theories).
While digging around Stephen Hawking's thinking evolution from his A Brief History of Time to the new theory, I found out that Hawking thought that philosophy is dead (since scientists make it obsolete). I found this idea of his highly ironic and unnecessary given that most scientists are mere cogs and only few of the governors of the scientific machinery get glimpses at the true nature of things (and then philosophize about it since they rarely propose truly 100% falsifiable theories).
