I've always been under the assumption that mass is what objects have irrespective of gravity. And weight is what objects have when subjected to gravity.
I don't recall having heard that mass is a measure of inertia. It's pretty obvious (now), yet more difficult for me to visualize than...
Hugh Everett was a dedicated hedonist; I honestly can't take his MWI theory seriously. However, I did write something last year in defense of MWI...
"Back in the 1950s, the orthodox explanation of quantum physics was called the 'Copenhagen Interpretation', which was propounded by Niels Bohr...
Atoms can experience a variety of forces, which implies they are not empty. Something must be there to experience the forces.
Imagine a large empty building with one person inside. Although the building is mostly "empty space", a large variety of random things can happen. Further imagine...
Of course. That's why I pointed out the problem of recovering memories. They are not stored in DNA (not information), so what are they?
The only way I can understand teleportation of humans is to think of teleporting the instructions that build us, our DNA. Our memories are not stored in...
The 'code' of DNA for a human is around 800 megabytes, which can be compressed to 30 megabytes. All of the information necessary to construct a human only takes about 30 megabytes. The question about the soul is irrelevant. More importantly, how would the memories be reconstructed? I see no...
I'm not a scientist, but I think the theory for determining whether spacetime is continuous or not is called 'quantum gravity'. Its goal is to quantize space, from what I understand. That would mean spacetime consists of discrete chunks and is not continuous.
I personally don't believe that...
I couldn't sleep the other night because I was thinking about photons and their ability to penetrate materials. It can be argued that humans are photon detectors. This is true in more than just the sense of visible light because photons don't just enter our pupils. As an example, our bodies can...
Thanks for the link; looks like a good read. If most particles that have been theorized have not been discovered, then there are many more particles than I am aware of. The books I have tend to be very realistic and list what particles have been discovered, which led me to believe that...
I also doubt it, but it's possible. I'm curious about them for a couple of reasons. Typically, theorized particles have been discovered. Thus, it is likely that the axion does exist. I have a very poor understanding of why axions were theorized, much unlike other particles, such as the neutrino...
I'm looking for a book written for non-scientists that has details about axions. As far as I know, they are particles that have been theorized and not experimentally detected. I'm not really sure why they have been theorized other than that they might be dark matter.
Thanks for any help.