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30 June, 2015

A New "Constructivist" Experiment

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Long Exposure of double pendulum with LED at end of each pendulum Here is a suggestion for a Couder-like constructivist experiment, to...

Greece: On the threshold of revolution?

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Significant things are happening in Greece. Could the country that gave the World Democracy, now establish a European Socialist State? ...
28 June, 2015

Persisting Resonances

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Let us muse about the natural oscillations of a fixed set up. The simplest is that of a fixed taut string anchored at both ends. For, su...
25 June, 2015

The Crucial Missing Ingredient?

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When considering, more generally, the significance of the creation of Yves Couder’s Walkers in his famous experiments, the role of th...
15 June, 2015

New Special Issue: The Atom & the Substrate I

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This new issue of the journal is the first in a landmark series outlining an entirely new approach to Sub-Atomic Physics. This will ...
13 June, 2015

Big Blip: Seeking Answers in the Knacker’s Yard

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The Rejuvenated LHC? In yet another celebration of the Large Hadron Collider, on the occasion of its resuscitation after a two-yea...
11 June, 2015

Gravity is a push force!

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This diagram is from a forthcoming new series called The Atom and the Substrate, which postulates that a heterogeneous sea of particles p...
26 May, 2015

Capitalism’s Major Flaw

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Profit! The article in New Scientist (3022) entitled "Capitalism’s Hidden Web of Power", questioned the current analysis ...
17 May, 2015

Vortices

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Diagrams taken from a forthcoming issue - a new theory of the atom. Part I of The Atom and the Substrate is now availa...
10 May, 2015

Why Do Models Work?

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“The Cognitive Art of Feynman Diagrams” by Edward Tufte - installation at the Fermilab art gallery Why Analogistic Models Contain Sign...

New Special Issue: Analogistic Models III

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Read the issue The last installment of our Analogistic Models series of issues.  
06 May, 2015

Singularities Suck!

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What is a Singularity? Let us take Zeno’s Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox to investigate. Achilles and the Tortoise are to have a rac...
01 May, 2015

The "Purest" Drivel!

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You Cannot Make a Silk Purse out of a Pig’s Ear! The article entitled “Quantum Purity” in New Scientist (3016) delivers no...

Physics and Philosophy

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The closing of Middlesex University Philosophy Department Are both disciplines really about the Nature of Reality? What do Philos...
29 April, 2015

John Berger: ‘Writing is an off-shoot of something deeper’

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"Words, terms, phrases can be separated from the creature of their language and used as mere labels. They then become inert and em...

Lost Wisdom

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The Pragmatic Road to Knowledge I was reading a piece the other day which mentioned Zeno and his Paradoxes (from 500 BC)...
24 April, 2015

Marxism and The Origin of Life

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 How Philosophy Aids Science “What?”, I hear you say, “What could possibly be a Marxist view of such an Event?” Well, it is the...

Issue 38 of Shape: Ideas on the Origin of Life

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Read the issue This latest edition started as a reaction to an article in New Scientist (3008) on Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells...
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