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I will go one up on this. A possible, perhaps likely, way of understanding human consciousness will be to: 1) model human thoughts...

Basically, no one knows. This is sometimes called "the hard problem of consciousness". It's fairly easy to understand how the neurons...

About that discussion on energy from tidal energy systems. There are tidal effects, primarily from our orbiting moon. And there are...

I am uncertain exactly how you're making this measurement, but as long as you are not trying to be practical, the answer is probably...

There is an Insight article about what virtual photons are. Essentially, they are a calculation device. It's not that a muon emits and...

Taylor & Wheeler: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Relativity/Spacetime_Physics_%28Taylor_and_Wheeler%29

There is no reason to believe that Feynman went wrong anywhere. The video does not provide a specific Feynman quote - so there is no...

Clearly, there are many possible reasons. Perhaps you would like to suggest a particular text that does a good job covering this topic...

Feynman said that the reason that one twin ages differently was that one accelerated and the other didn't. So long as you are comparing...

The term "particle" has been claimed for something different in the universe. So, let's not call the whole universe a "particle". At...

Whatever "hyperdrive" is, how is it on the conservation of momentum? Basically, it means the story line requires us to move much faster...

Re "Under the Dome": Most of us may never know whether they originally intended to follow King's original story line - which was...

Kyoto University has announce a transistor that will operate at 600 degrees Centigrade. The full article can be downloaded in pdf form...

An entertaining story works because the story tellers and the audience cooperate. The writers create something that is understandable...

To be explicit about the order of operations, two's complement is NEG(b) = (NOT b)+1.