Φιλοσοφικό Τηλεγράφημα: Αρχές Ω, αυτές οι αρχές…

Όπου κι αν κοιτάξουμε, οι ίδιοι κανόνες ισχύουν παντού στο χώρο: αμέτρητοι υπολογισμοί της αστροφυσικής βασίζονται σε αυτήν τη βασική αρχή. Μια πρόσφατη μελέτη των Πανεπιστημίων της Βόννης και του Χάρβαρντ, ωστόσο, αμφισβήτησε αυτήν την αρχή. Εάν επιβεβαιωθούν οι τιμές που μετρήθηκαν, αυτό θα καταστήσει πολλές υποθέσεις σχετικά με τις ιδιότητες του σύμπαντος άχρηστες. Τα αποτελέσματα δημοσιεύονται στο περιοδικό Astronomy & Astrophysics, αλλά είναι ήδη διαθέσιμα στο διαδίκτυο. Από το Big Bang και μετά, το σύμπαν έχει πρηστεί σαν ένα φρέσκο ψωμάκι σε φούρνο. Μέχρι πρόσφατα, θεωρήθηκε ότι αυτή η αύξηση του μεγέθους συνέβαινε ομοιόμορφα προς όλες τις κατευθύνσεις, όπως και με μια καλή ζύμη. Οι αστροφυσικοί το αποκαλούν αυτό "ισοτροπία". Πολλοί υπολογισμοί σχετικά με τις θεμελιώδεις ιδιότητες του σύμπαντος βασίζονται σε αυτήν την υπόθεση. Είναι πιθανό ότι είναι όλοι λάθος - ή τουλάχιστον, ανακριβείς - χάρη στις συναρπαστικές παρατηρήσεις και αναλύσεις των επιστημόνων από τα Πανεπιστήμια της Βόννης και του Χάρβαρντ.

Γιατί δοκίμασαν την υπόθεση της ισοτροπίας για πρώτη φορά με μια νέα μέθοδο που επιτρέπει πιο αξιόπιστα αποτελέσματα από πριν. Και το αποτέλεσμα ήταν απροσδόκητο: Σύμφωνα με αυτήν τη μέθοδο, ορισμένες περιοχές στο διάστημα επεκτείνονται γρηγορότερα από ό,τι πρέπει, ενώ άλλες επεκτείνονται πιο αργά από το αναμενόμενο. "Σε κάθε περίπτωση, αυτό το συμπέρασμα προτείνεται από τις μετρήσεις μας", δηλώνει ο Κωνσταντίνος Μίγκας, από το Ινστιτούτο Αστρονομίας του Αργολάν στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Βόννης. [1]

Βασικές υποθέσεις.

Ισοτροπία.
Ομοιογένεια.
Τοπικότητα.

Μια επιστήμη που βασίζεται στη θρησκεία.
Μια θρησκεία που βασίζεται στο φόβο.
Ο άνθρωπος λατρεύει το Θεό.

Αρχές.
Αόρατες αρχές.
Καθοδηγούν το μυαλό μας.
Χτίζοντας έναν κόσμο καθρεφτών.
Μόνο επειδή φοβόμαστε.
Να γνωρίζουμε ότι είμαστε ο Θεός.
Και να σπάσουμε τον καθρέφτη.
Και να δούμε τον κόσμο πέρα από αυτόν.

Μη τοπικότητα.
Ανομοιογένεια.
Ανισοτροπία.

Η πιο βασική από όλες τις υποθέσεις.

Ότι χρειαζόμαστε υποθέσεις…

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Philosophy Wire: Mass extinctions. So?

Unravelling the reasons why mass extinctions occur. [1] We are so much worried about events of mass extinction. As if we know why mass life-creation events happen. Question what you think is good. And you will see the world come to an eloquent blissful stop…

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Philosophy Wire: DNA, friends, hypotheses...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-07]: The findings of a research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (of which country? The article does not clarify), show that people share 0.1 percent more DNA with their friends than with perfect strangers. That’s about the same genetic similarity you share with your fourth cousin. [1] But is it that DNA similarities make us be friends with these people? Or that because we are friends we grow to have similar DNA? Pay attention to your assumptions. Because they shape your conclusions...

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Philosophy Wire: Assumptions, simulations, light...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-08-27]:

Computer simulations of intergalactic hydrogen in a "dimly lit" universe (left) and a "brightly lit" universe (right) that has five times more of the energetic photons that destroy neutral hydrogen atoms. Hubble Space Telescope observations of hydrogen absorption match the picture on the right, but using only the known astronomical sources of ultraviolet light produces the much thicker structures on the left, and a severe mismatch with the observations. [1]
We are always haunted by the things that SHOULD be there.
We are always defined by the things that SHOULD happen.
Let go of your assumptions.
Do UNSCIENTIFIC science!
It is the only way to truly DO science!

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Philosophy Wire: First animals, oxygen, assumptions...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-16]: It seems that first animals oxygenated our planet, instead of our planet helping first animals to grow due to its oxygen. [1] Pairs of past events, can be interchangeable regarding cause-and-effect. And now that I think better of it, everything is interchangeable regarding cause-and-effect. It is assumptions (like the direction of the arrow of time) that determine the undetermined. Never forget that...

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Philosophy Wire: Robots, building, "intelligence"...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-27]: Mini robots building a wall without guidance. [1] Or so we want to believe. Every time we refer to "artificial intelligence" we accept a dozen assumptions. Speaking about the artificial creation having... "intelligence", implies that we accept intelligence is totally decoupled from anything immaterial AND something that is programmed. But who programmed it? Pay attention my atheist friends! God lurks in every corner...

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Philosophy Wire: Aliens, DNA, assumptions…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-05]: A weird nano-skeleton which was thought to be alien, was finally found to be human since it had human DNA. [source: web news] Of course all these are based on the irrational assumption that aliens must have different DNA than we have… And we must always be careful of our assumptions…

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Philosophy Wire: Smelling life... (!)

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-08]: In a discovery suggesting that odors may have a far more important role in life than previously believed, scientists have found that heart, blood, lung and other cells in the body have the same receptors for sensing odors that exist in the nose. It opens the door to questions about whether the heart, for instance, "smells" that fresh-brewed cup of coffee or cinnamon bun, according to the research leader, who spoke in New Orleans on April 7 at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. [source: web news]

 

A smell can make you have the most intense memories/ flashbacks than any other sense. Maybe this is because your whole organism participates in that sense. The most useless sense, may be after all the most fundamental of them all... Wrong perceptions everywhere...

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Philosophy Wire: Babies, assumptions, assumptions, assumptions…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-26]: Scientists believe that babies can discriminate between syllables while still in the womb, by studying babies outside the womb! [source: BBC News] The story of Science: assumptions, assumptions, assumptions… A necessary evil if we wish to examine the cosmos with the great tool called "science"... And it is to the credit of these scientists the fact that they announced openly their assumptions. Good science can only be made on the basis of honesty.

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Philosophy Wire: Black Beauty, science, Mars, assumptions

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-04]: A meteorite which fell on Earth from Mars in Sahara desert has astounded scientists. [source: BBC News] But... how do we know that it is from Mars? But of course because it resembles other rocks which have fallen on our planet from the Red Planet. Really? But this specific meteorite has some special unique characteristics. Could that be interpreted that it came from somewhere else? If 10 samples from a planet have composition A, is it impossible for the 11th sample to have composition B? It is really scary to realize that the categorizations made by the human mind of scientists are some times based too much on ungrounded assumptions...

 

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