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Big Bang Theory Is Science Fiction

http://www.creationsermons.com/BigBangIsScienceFiction.html

rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. The settings for science fiction are often contrary to those of consensus reality. Science fiction is a genre of fiction d

Gerard ’t Hooft, Theoretical Physics as a Challenge

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html

faith - check it. Try alternative approaches, as many as you can. You will discover, time and again, that really what those guys did indeed was the smartest thing possible. Amazin
How to become a good theoretical physicist

SHG - UFO Symposium 1968: Sagan Statement

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/sagan.html

scientist introduces alternative hypotheses for which there is no other evidence. Such hypotheses must still be consistent with all other available scientific information. The ide

KEYNESIAN MYTHS

http://webhome.auburn.edu/~garriro/fk1hdale.htm

work better? And what alternative system might be preferable? Attempts by interpreters to answer these questions selectively have given rise to Keynesian Hydraulics, Keynesian Kal

A Deuteronomy of Kant's Geometry

https://friesian.com/space-1.htm

Mach stepped in with an alternative: there is no need to posit anything that sensory experience does not confirm or predict. Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachel Wiseman, Metaphysical Anim

The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2013 Edition)

https://plato.sydney.edu.au/archives/win2013/entries/incommensurability/

anomalies, certain alternatives are excluded, but nature does not guide us to some uniquely correct theory. Kuhn developed and refined his initial idea over the following decades,

Net.Legends.FAQ (Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet) Part 1/4

https://www.linux.it/~md/usenet/legends1.html

of "beables" as an alternative to the usual concept of "observables." Since then "beables" have become a bit of a fad; over on alt.sex there are now some people under the impressi

Criticism of Karl Popper in Martin Gardner

https://friesian.com/gardner.htm

is thus no rational alternative -- given our present state of understanding, which is the whole present system of human knowledge. Truth isn't coherence, but our manner of knowing

Blog: The Death of Scientism

http://indigocurnick.xyz/blog/2024-03-05/the-death-of-scientism

comfortable with "alternative" sources of information. Blogs and forums are unofficially already likely a greater source of valuable information than so-called "rea
What has peer review done to us?

The Everett Interpretation

https://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm

Q3 What are the alternatives to many-worlds? Q4 What is a "world"? Q5 What is a measurement? Q6 Why do worlds split? What is decoherence? Q7 When do worlds split? Q8 When does Sch
The Everett 'Many-Worlds' FAQ

Thought Experiments on the Soul; the Egyptian Soul

https://friesian.com/soul.htm

that persists. Or, alternatively, we could say that Descartes poked traditional metaphysics in the eye, and now the afterimage simply will not go away. In 19th century materialism

Non-materialist physicalism as conceived by ChatGPT

https://www.physicalism.com/chatgpt/

presents an alternative understanding of the connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness. The idea is that the phenomenally-bound experience we have is a direct result


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