There is an old saying: If appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science
Theories have four stages of acceptance: i. this is worthless nonsense; ii. this is interesting, but perverse; iii. this is true, but quite unimportant; iv. I always said so. —J. B. S. HALDANE, 1963
The mind of man is capable of anything … because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. —JOSEPH CONRAD
Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationships, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ult...
Since Einstein derived his famous equation, literally millions of experiments have confirmed his revolutionary ideas.
Second is N, equal to 1036, which is the strength of the electric force divided by the strength of gravity, which shows how weak gravity is.
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
Of all the transitions, perhaps the most difficult is the transition from Type 0 to Type I, which we are undergoing at present. This is because a Type 0 civilization is the most uncivilized, both tech...
More recently, these electrodes have targeted a new area of the brain (called Brodmann’s area number 25) that is often overactive in depressed patients who do not respond to psychotherapy or drugs. De...
La idea de crear máquinas pensantes que sean al menos tan listas como los animales, y quizá tan listas o más que nosotros, se hará una realidad si podemos superar el colapso de la ley de Moore y el pr...
It from bit. It’s an unorthodox theory, which starts with the assumption that informationis at the root of all existence. When we look at the moon, a galaxy, or an atom, their essence, he claims, is i...
In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron.
In other words, our destiny is to become the gods that we once feared and worshipped. Science will give us the means by which we can shape the universe in our image.
In fact, there is one theory that states that dark matter, an invisible form of matter that surrounds the galaxy, might be ordinary matter floating in a parallel universe. As in H.G. Wells's novel The...
I. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. II. The only way...
First, to create the violent distortions of space and time necessary to travel through a wormhole, one would need fabulous amounts of positive and negative matter, on the order of a huge star or a bla...
El deseo de saber algo sobre nuestros vecinos en las inmensas profundidades del espacio no se debe a la curiosidad ociosa ni a la sed de conocimiento, sino a una causa más profunda, y es un sentimient...
Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (or BRAIN) project announced by President Obama, and the Human Brain Project of the European Union, which will potentially allocate billio...
ربما كانت أحدث آلة في أدوات عمل عالم الأعصاب وأكثرها إثارة هي الجينات الضوئية، والتي اعتبرت مرة من الخيال العلمي؛ ومثل العصا السحرية، تسمح لك هذه التقنية بتنشيط ممرات معينة تتحكم في السلوك بتسليط شعاع...
Sin ciencia no hay ciencia ficción.