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It's no great feat ...
Verifiable, reproduceable or debunked, it does not seem a great feat to me that a cat can detect death in a human being. We've had animals sense things about us forever. Most commonly, animals can sense fear in a human, which is also when they are most liable to attack. They follow the old natural rule that the only creature I need to be ...
Posted to Science by gruff on August 2, 2007
The Myth of the ToE
The article makes the common statement that physicists are looking for a Final Theory of Everything that will provide an ultimate explaination of all the phenomena in the universe, including all the Why questions that keep so many college sophomores up at night. This is nonsense. The universe is not a neat package that can be tied together with ...
Posted to Science by Beyond Popper on June 10, 2007
What's Left to Discover?
Plenty. As for some of the implications of completing the Standard Model and still not connecting particle physics with gravity, well...I hate to rerun my own material, but hey, why not? Duct Tape Cosmology For the last century (or so) the goal of physics has been to find an elegant solution which describes all of physics and unifies the four ...
Posted to Science by Schadenfreude on June 4, 2007