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EVERYTHING COMPUTES. “The Californian philosopher John Searle argues that even your garden wall is a conventional computer; and other philosophers maintain that a simple rock standing motionless on a beach is a (conventional) computer.” https://lnkd.in/eepengBW View in LinkedIn

In California, unlike Catalonia, this glass of wine would have the decimal place moved, not in our favor. View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS. “We can now give a heuristic argument on why the Universe cannot contain ordinary matter only.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow). https://lnkd.in/eBvC_Vxw View in LinkedIn

FOOTNOTE. “Henceforth we will neglect multiplicative constants of order unity.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

WASTEPAPER BIN IDEAS. “Just as Einstein had to abandon the most basic assumptions about the nature of space and time, so we have to abandon the most basic assumptions about the nature of mass and spin.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

HEISENBERG. “One manifestation of spacetime fluctuations is in the induced uncertainties in any distance measurement.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

PROBLEMATIC ASSUMPTION. “The Michelson–Morley experiment produced the apparently absurd result that the speed of light in a vacuum is always the same, independently of how fast you are moving when you measure it. Einstein cut the Gordian knot by taking this result at face value, and making it his basic assumption.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

REALITY. “Following Wheeler, we believe that space is composed of an ever-changing geometry and topology called spacetime foam and that the foaminess is due to quantum fluctuations of spacetime. We argue for a scenario in which spacetime foam is the origin of both cosmic accelerations.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

THOMAS KUHN. “There is a close analogy here with Einstein’s development of the theory of special relativity in 1905. In the late 19th century explorations of the properties of light, electricity and magnetism had developed to the point where serious contradictions started to appear. There were experimental results that could not be reconciled with any commonsense view of the universe.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn