Real, or Not Real? A Psi-caustic Question

An Action ................................................. Engenders an Opposite Reaction to the Action ....................................................................... Engenders A Very Opposite Reaction to the Opposite Reaction to the Action ....................................... I'd not heard of this shit. Yet it's kind of FCP'ian in tone. Whaddya think?

His Dark Materials?

Truly a Bridge to Nowhere .............................................................

For SM, Ms. Higg's Bosons don't Need no Stinking Symmetry

Experimental Theology

God's Mighty 'Tater Chip: The Universal Pringle

"Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has confirmed that the idea is on the right track. He showed that the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary."

Gee, Eliot was a prophetic genius, what with that "we are the holo men" riff. He really should get an Ignoble before The Big Crunch. Another Handful
Or, just maybe, the theoretical physicists have gone madder than the hatters of Planet Pepe's Mount Laudanum.

Tecumsehian Dreams

No need for a Gitmo if this little technobauble is set loose among enemy combatants. Makes Le Pews' appeasery vain, and all thugs 100% non-revanchists. Tecumseh weeps with Joy.

Islam and The Fall of Science

This is something I've argued for a very long time. Islam is the death of Science. The more a land is fixed within the Ummah, the longer it abides there, the deeper it's fall into intellectual emptiness and the stagnation, and loss, of the spirit of rational inquiry into the nature of Nature. It is not alone in this, but it is the prime instance.

Cheesy Science is Full of Holes

Through a BlowGlass Darkly

Ultima Reductio Ad Absurdum

Shucks, No Nawlins??

we'll see

The Gospel According to Christopher Hitchens, Book One

Hitch: ...here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between Professor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins, concerning "punctuated evolution" and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shall resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication.

One more note: it's impossible to agree with the Hitch statement that Religion Poisons Everything. There are certainly elements within religions (in the strict socio-cultural sense) that bring people together, be it Easter (with egg hunts), or Christmas dinner with the family -- both are rooted in pagan/seasonal history. It's an excuse for all of us to say, "Nope, as a culture we've agreed to step away from work and be with family." Of course, I say this thinking that everyone's family gets along in a similar way as mine. If you don't like your family, then by all means, Religion very well poisons everything.

A Snort of the Old Block

gets you looking 63 going on 84

Digital Penetration: Metaphysics and "functional magnetic resonance imaging"

Another study that clarifies the eternal and absurd arguement about whether Free Will or Environmental/Biological Determinism exists (only for lunatics and absolutists is it just the one or the other).

Excerpt: "To make human choice predictable, you first have to constrain it so that it's not really free."

or, "blah-blah-blah..."