cosmology

Shaking Hands with Our Future: Do We Live in The Matrix?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / June 3, 2010 /

Found : Shaking Hands with Our Future: Do We Live in The Matrix? Dr. George Ryazanov is a Russian physicist with a strong interest in unifying a vision of physics and metaphysics in a grand synthesis he calls the syncretic science of the future. Ryazanov's ideas are rooted in the concept of the opposition of…

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The Universe is Obsolete : a gallery of multiverse theories

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 17, 2010 /

Found : The Universe is Obsolete : a gallery of multiverse theories There is a greater collective, more than one universe embedded in higher dimensional space or hyperspace. Our worldview must change to a multiverse view, even though it may be difficult to wrap our minds around the notion. The multiverse is the set of…

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Is the Weak Anthropic Principle Compatible With Divine Design?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 8, 2010 /

Found : Is the Weak Anthropic Principle Compatible With Divine Design? The fundamental assumption behind the Anthropic philosopher’s reasoning in this regard seems to be something along the lines of 8. If the Universe contains an exhaustively random and infinite number of universes, then anything that can occur with non-vanishing probability will occur somewhere. But…

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Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 2, 2010 /

Found : Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago, may soon help solve seemingly unrelated problems in particle physics, cosmology and gravitational physics, according to a panel of experts who spoke Feb. 15 at the American…

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Consciousness, Causality, Quantum Physics

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 30, 2010 /

Found : Consciousness, Causality, Quantum Physics In Bohm's model, then, the quantum world exists even when it is not being observed and measured. He rejects the positivist view that something that cannot be measured or known precisely cannot be said to exist. In other words, he does not confuse epistemology with ontology, the map with…

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Max Tegmark's Theory of Everything

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 25, 2010 /

Found : Max Tegmark’s Theory of Everything According to Tegmark, every last formal system on the tree of mathematics is endowed with physical existence. Every last formal system corresponds to an actual universe. Tegmark has extended the Copernican principle beyond our Universe to an infinite set of universes. Not only is there nothing special about…

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What Happened Before the Big Bang? : Paul Davies

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / February 25, 2010 /

Found : What Happened Before the Big Bang? : Paul Davies …given an infinite amount of time, anything that can happen will already have happened, for if a physical process is likely to occur with a certain nonzero probability – however small-then given an infinite amount of time the process must occur…

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Creation Ex Nihilo or from Wheeler's 'Pregeometry'?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / January 28, 2010 /

Found : Creation Ex Nihilo or from Wheeler’s ‘Pregeometry’? In a 1975 article entitled Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony? J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton use the term "pregeometry" to refer to "…something deeper than geometry, that underlies both geometry and particles." And they suggest that "For ultimately revealing this structure, no perspective seems…

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Parallel Universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / January 23, 2010 /

Found : Parallel Universes: Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system…

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Is God in the Details?: From cosmic coincidence to conservative cosmopolitics

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / January 10, 2010 /

Found : Is God in the Details?: From cosmic coincidence to conservative cosmopolitics In this theory, our universe emerged from a black hole in a previous universe; moreover, each black hole in our universe (and other universes) generates yet another universe. Universes that produce lots of black holes therefore have more “progeny” than universes that…

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