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Great ideas often exist before and beyond any single speaker. The insight that humans are biologically, chemically, and atomically connected to the universe appears across science and philosophy, voiced by thinkers in different ways.
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“It was an act of despair, to sacrifice physics for the sake of finding an explanation.”
- Max Planck
- circa 1900
Planck Constant
A later reflection by Planck about the year.
Planck didn’t advance physics by defending what he believed, but by surrendering it when the evidence refused to cooperate. His “act of despair” reminds us that truth doesn’t yield to confidence. It yields to honesty—especially at the moment when our most trusted explanations stop working.
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Is space truly empty? Anywhere?
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“Empty space” is a convenient shorthand, not a physical reality. Even where atoms are scarce, gravity still acts, light still travels, and particles like neutrinos pass through. The universe has no true voids—only regions where matter is spread astonishingly thin. Emptiness, it turns out, is relative.
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Our Clearest Lens of Reality
Good philosophy emerges from science.
New looks at scientific results with a focus on the philosophical. To understand reality beyond the empirical, you must first understand what we see. At the core of what we see is the cosmos guided by forces controlling particles evolving into life.
Note: To explore the process of science, visit Philosophy of Science tab under Truth Hammers in our Critical Thinking topic.
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The Nature of Time
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Time is not a ticking metronome; it is the ledger of causation.
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Speculative Ideas in Science: Rip-Bang, Bigfoot, and Beyond
Idea Theory Framework
The Idea Theory Framework is part of the Idea of Ideas and models a process in which ideas can go from speculative to theory.
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Deep-Dive Articles
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Reality may not be particles afterall. It may be more like waves, vibrations, or strings.
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In religion and philosophy, the existence and essence debate asks if you exist before your time on Earth.
The Fermi Paradox is Too Anthropocentric
The Fermi Paradox is the common framework for thinking about the odds of alien life, but we need more data before it can become accurate ...
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