Science Archive
13 Dec 2019
Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of papier mâché2 *
or My Singapore’s speech “For a new vision of the universe and of the meaning of life.” Orazio Guglielmini Part two The history of the universe has many endings – big crunch, big rip, big freeze, big bounce, etc., – but not a single beginning. No one dares to go beyond Max Planck’s
01 Jan 2014
6 scenarios of the inevitable end of mankind
(I must excuse myself for the mistakes, but I hope that somebody could find equally the post interesting) 1 By human hand 2 By an eruption of a supervolcano 3 BY the impact with a meteorite 4 By the gamma rays from a supernova 5 Swallowed by a black hole
10 Mar 2013
The unnameable or a vision of the world without observers.
In other words, what would the universe be like if there were no human beings? It would not have a name, no attributes; it would not make any sense. It would be as it is. What does that mean? It means just that, nameless. All the mountains, plains, animals, plants, seas, planets, stars, galaxies, empty
01 Feb 2013
Am I a believer, atheist or physicalist?
Firstly, we must ask ourselves, ignoring for a moment the question of believer or atheist, what is physicalism and what does it mean to be a physicalist. It actually means many things, and in my case, at least four. The first instance, and the one which revolutionised my existence, I owe to my Uncle Carlo.
03 Nov 2012
Religion, science and the hurricane Sandy
Take, as an example, what is happening these days in America, take hurricane Sandy. To recognize his formation, his destructive violence, fury and try to see and avoid the negative consequences on the population was science, meteorological science. And so, thanks to it, if the dead, instead of being many, possibly millions, are reduced to