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"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler", Albert Einstein
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The Universe, the Cold War, and Dialectical Materialism
Helge Kragh Ideological considerations have always influenced science, but rarely as directly and massively as in the Soviet Union during the early Cold War period. Cosmology was among the sciences that became heavily politicized and forced to conform to the doctrines of Marxism-Leninism. This field of science developed entirely differently in the Communist countries than […]
The fundamental mass (this is not about the Higgs)
April 10, 2012
At a time when we are about to shed light on the fundamental question of the creation of mass after the Big Bang, we are also close to solving another basic mass-related problem. The kilogram is the only base unit of the International System of Units (SI) whose official definition is still based on a […]
Empty waves, many worlds, parallel lives….
April 10, 2012
… and nonlocal decision at detection Antoine Suarez I discuss an experiment demonstrating nonlocality and conservation of energy under the assumption that the decision of the outcome happens at detection. The experiment does not require Bell’s inequalities and is loophole-free. I further argue that the local hidden variables assumed in Bell’s theorem involve de Broglie’s […]
April 10, 2012
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