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Chances Are

For those who like to parse a poem, you may have noticed both gods and God appear in the first three stanzas. The reference in the first stanza to Einstein comes from the famous response he received from Niels Bohr for his often repeated adage expressing his distaste for quantum mechanical theory that God doesn’t […]

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ILLUMINATED

ILLUMINATED   The physicists in their studies transcribe formulae that define reality. Theirs is a cloistered yet secular tribe that daily deals with strict duality. Foremost, their math must be made to agree, precisely, with all that can be observed, though, often, what we are able to see can misinform, they must not be unnerved. […]

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Breaking Symmetry

Our universe has things in it because chance quantum fluctuations enable. Nothing is what violates Nature’s laws — something is apparently more stable. Supersymmetry was asking for it. It was just too perfect to be withstood, and once it took the predictable hit it lit up the entire neighborhood, and, in that Big Bang, the […]

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Entropic Hope

ENTROPIC HOPE   Dr. Smart, with sweeping dioramics, summarized theory accepted today: “The first few laws of thermodynamics: You can’t win, break even or get away.   “No matter speed of acceleration, the universe runs down since the Big Bang. The fate of order is dissipation. The spring, once sprung, can’t be re-sprung. It sprang. […]

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Pent Sills

What stories are held inside a black hole?  Is information even stored inside or is it lost entirely in the quantum, slow-motion evaporation that occurs randomly at its boundary? Noticing the sharpened point of my pencil, it seemed to me that information stored in the graphene was slowly and tediously in fits and starts, in […]

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Sidereal Atlas

It would be possible to chart a course for a planet in another galaxy, only to find out its star had already gone supernova before we had even begun our journey.  Since, at present, we have no hope of traveling faster than light, we can only obtain distant information at the speed of light, so […]

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