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Questioning the Foundations Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong? May 24 - August 31, 2012 Contest Partners: The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, SubMeta, and Scientific American read/discuss
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The Nature of Space by M. V. Vasilyeva 107 posts • created by M. V. Vasilyeva
• Sep. 6, 2012 @ 11:17 GMT Community Rating: 4.0 (21 ratings) Public Rating: 5.6 (10 ratings)
Notes on Relativity by Edward Hoerdt 18 posts • created by Edward Hoerdt
• Sep. 5, 2012 @ 15:33 GMT Community Rating: 3.3 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 3.5 (4 ratings)
Universe Runs on G by Eray Sabancilar 22 posts • created by Eray Sabancilar
• Sep. 5, 2012 @ 15:22 GMT Community Rating: 3.2 (21 ratings) Public Rating: 4.4 (5 ratings)
The Trick of the Light by Stefan Weckbach 44 posts • created by Stefan Weckbach
• Sep. 5, 2012 @ 12:41 GMT Community Rating: 4.1 (11 ratings) Public Rating: 4.0 (4 ratings)
Is Life Fundamental? by Sara Imari Walker 115 posts • created by Sara Imari Walker
• Sep. 5, 2012 @ 12:41 GMT Community Rating: 4.5 (36 ratings) Public Rating: 5.7 (14 ratings)
What Would Weyl Do? by Blake Stephen Pollard 7 posts • created by Blake Stephen Pollard
• Sep. 5, 2012 @ 11:32 GMT Community Rating: 2.4 (7 ratings) Public Rating: 1.0 (1 rating)
An Observable World by Conrad Dale Johnson 21 posts • created by Conrad Dale Johnson
• Sep. 4, 2012 @ 15:15 GMT Community Rating: 4.0 (21 ratings) Public Rating: 3.8 (4 ratings)
Cosmic Solipsism by Amanda Gefter 53 posts • created by Amanda Gefter
• Sep. 4, 2012 @ 12:08 GMT Community Rating: 4.0 (28 ratings) Public Rating: 5.7 (13 ratings)
Geometry of Light by Michael Robert Evans 7 posts • created by MICHAEL EVANS
• Sep. 4, 2012 @ 11:37 GMT Community Rating: 2.2 (6 ratings) Public Rating: 2.0 (1 rating)
Not on but of. by Olaf Dreyer 38 posts • created by Olaf Dreyer
• Sep. 4, 2012 @ 11:15 GMT Community Rating: 4.9 (22 ratings) Public Rating: 5.2 (6 ratings)
Elementary Time Cycles by Donatello Dolce 63 posts • created by Donatello Dolce
• Sep. 4, 2012 @ 11:15 GMT Community Rating: 4.0 (23 ratings) Public Rating: 5.7 (6 ratings)
Dreaming in Geneva by Arjen Dijksman 21 posts • created by Arjen Dijksman
• Sep. 4, 2012 @ 11:15 GMT Community Rating: 4.1 (18 ratings) Public Rating: 5.0 (5 ratings)
Newton's Apple Revisited by Peter Bauch 14 posts • created by peter bauch
• Sep. 3, 2012 @ 14:09 GMT Community Rating: 2.3 (8 ratings) Public Rating: 4.0 (2 ratings)
What's the Point? by Ben Baten 26 posts • created by Ben Baten
• Sep. 3, 2012 @ 14:09 GMT Community Rating: 3.6 (11 ratings) Public Rating: 3.7 (3 ratings)
The Algebra of "Everything" by Rick Lockyer 101 posts • created by Rick Lockyer
• Aug. 31, 2012 @ 12:07 GMT Community Rating: 4.3 (18 ratings) Public Rating: 3.0 (2 ratings)
Billy Pilgrim Blues by Jeffrey Michael Schmitz 17 posts • created by Jeffrey Michael Schmitz
• Aug. 31, 2012 @ 12:07 GMT Community Rating: 2.3 (7 ratings) Public Rating: 1.0 (1 rating)
Against Objective Realism by Harlan Swyers 42 posts • created by Harlan Swyers
• Aug. 31, 2012 @ 12:07 GMT Community Rating: 3.5 (15 ratings) Public Rating: 4.7 (9 ratings)
Let There Be Light by Jimmy Allen Baker 10 posts • created by jimmy allen baker
• Aug. 31, 2012 @ 11:34 GMT Community Rating: 2.1 (7 ratings) Public Rating: 4.3 (4 ratings)
The Forgotten Landscape by Tommy Anderberg 12 posts • created by Tommy Anderberg
• Aug. 31, 2012 @ 11:02 GMT Community Rating: 4.0 (8 ratings) Public Rating: 4.3 (3 ratings)
The Incredible Foundations by Jose P. Koshy 15 posts • created by Jose P. Koshy
• Aug. 30, 2012 @ 12:41 GMT Community Rating: 3.8 (8 ratings) Public Rating: 3.0 (2 ratings)
Revenge of the Cranks by Chris Kennedy 122 posts • created by Chris Kennedy
• Aug. 30, 2012 @ 12:08 GMT Community Rating: 3.9 (17 ratings) Public Rating: 4.8 (9 ratings)
What If? by Michael Abramowitz 24 posts • created by Michael Abramowitz
• Aug. 29, 2012 @ 12:39 GMT Community Rating: 2.3 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 4.7 (3 ratings)
3 Dimensional String Theory by George Rajna 38 posts • created by George Rajna
• Aug. 29, 2012 @ 12:39 GMT Community Rating: 2.6 (15 ratings) Public Rating: 8.7 (364 ratings)
Against Spacetime by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia 97 posts • created by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
• Aug. 28, 2012 @ 16:43 GMT Community Rating: 4.8 (36 ratings) Public Rating: 5.0 (10 ratings)
What Makes Matter Move? by Jerome Cantor 24 posts • created by Jerome Cantor
• Aug. 27, 2012 @ 17:41 GMT Community Rating: 3.0 (10 ratings) Public Rating: 3.0 (1 rating)
A Very Brief Statement by Irvon Eugene Clear 31 posts • created by Irvon Eugene Clear
• Aug. 24, 2012 @ 12:07 GMT Community Rating: 1.7 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 4.9 (7 ratings)
No 3 Things by Yuri Benjamin Danoyan 113 posts • created by Yuri Danoyan
• Aug. 22, 2012 @ 14:19 GMT Community Rating: 3.6 (38 ratings) Public Rating: 5.0 (10 ratings)
The Big Puzzle by Tuomo Suntola 10 posts • created by Tuomo Suntola
• Aug. 22, 2012 @ 11:34 GMT Community Rating: 4.1 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 3.3 (3 ratings)
To Seek Unknown Shores by Ted Erikson 44 posts • created by Ted Erikson
• Aug. 22, 2012 @ 11:34 GMT Community Rating: 2.8 (18 ratings) Public Rating: 7.3 (44 ratings)
An Elephant in the Room by Don Limuti 55 posts • created by Don Limuti
• Aug. 21, 2012 @ 14:41 GMT Community Rating: 3.7 (19 ratings) Public Rating: 5.0 (7 ratings)
An Ancient Error by Mark Feeley 31 posts • created by Mark Feeley
• Aug. 21, 2012 @ 14:29 GMT Community Rating: 3.7 (16 ratings) Public Rating: 6.3 (40 ratings)
Energy and Spacetime by Ryoji Furui 26 posts • created by Ryoji Furui
• Aug. 21, 2012 @ 10:09 GMT Community Rating: 1.8 (9 ratings) Public Rating: 4.5 (4 ratings)
Meaning of the Wave Function by Shan Gao 22 posts • created by Shan Gao
• Aug. 10, 2012 @ 16:52 GMT Community Rating: 3.9 (19 ratings) Public Rating: 4.0 (4 ratings)
Cosmic Engineering by Abraham Loeb 39 posts • created by Abraham Loeb
• Aug. 10, 2012 @ 16:41 GMT Community Rating: 3.3 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 3.0 (1 rating)
On the Nature of Time by Thomas Garcia 27 posts • created by THOMAS GARCIA
• Aug. 10, 2012 @ 12:47 GMT Community Rating: 2.2 (10 ratings) Public Rating: 3.0 (2 ratings)
Can Gravity Be Quantized? by Vesselin Petkov 151 posts • created by Vesselin Petkov
• Aug. 8, 2012 @ 13:00 GMT Community Rating: 4.1 (34 ratings) Public Rating: 5.1 (11 ratings)
The Creation Paradox by Daniel Hall 16 posts • created by Daniel Hall
• Aug. 8, 2012 @ 12:15 GMT Community Rating: 3.3 (11 ratings) Public Rating: 2.8 (4 ratings)
A Fable by Juan Enrique Ramos Beraud 19 posts • created by Juan Enrique Ramos Beraud
• Aug. 7, 2012 @ 10:24 GMT Community Rating: 2.0 (22 ratings) Public Rating: 3.9 (7 ratings)
Did God Divide by Zero? by Cristinel Stoica 109 posts • created by Cristinel Stoica
• Aug. 6, 2012 @ 14:46 GMT Community Rating: 4.2 (34 ratings) Public Rating: 5.4 (8 ratings)
The Universe That Isn’t by Malcolm Macleod 25 posts • created by Malcolm Macleod
• Jul. 17, 2012 @ 11:23 GMT Community Rating: 2.7 (6 ratings) Public Rating: 3.7 (3 ratings)
Much Ado About Nothing by Peter Jackson 498 posts • created by Peter Jackson
• Jul. 12, 2012 @ 10:41 GMT Community Rating: 5.0 (54 ratings) Public Rating: 6.0 (22 ratings)
The Logic of Physical Reality by Paul Reed 90 posts • created by Paul Reed
• Jul. 11, 2012 @ 11:20 GMT Community Rating: 3.1 (15 ratings) Public Rating: 4.0 (2 ratings)
Einstein's Error by Anton W.M. Biermans 33 posts • created by Anton W.M. Biermans
• Jul. 11, 2012 @ 10:33 GMT Community Rating: 3.6 (10 ratings) Public Rating: 4.3 (3 ratings)
Gravity Is a Dimension by James R. Akerlund 31 posts • created by james r. akerlund
• Jul. 10, 2012 @ 12:39 GMT Community Rating: 2.1 (10 ratings) Public Rating: 3.7 (3 ratings)
The Perfect First Question. by T H Ray 178 posts • created by Thomas Howard Ray
• Jul. 3, 2012 @ 11:34 GMT Community Rating: 4.3 (38 ratings) Public Rating: 4.3 (14 ratings)
The Shape of Physics 2312 by Arnie Berns 12 posts • created by Arnie Berns
• Jun. 19, 2012 @ 15:37 GMT Community Rating: 2.8 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 3.0 (1 rating)
The Quantum Supremacy by Kyle Miller 26 posts • created by Kyle Miller
• Jun. 15, 2012 @ 12:24 GMT Community Rating: 2.7 (11 ratings) Public Rating: 3.5 (2 ratings)
Sequence Consequence by Joe Fisher 28 posts • created by Joe Fisher
• Jun. 15, 2012 @ 12:23 GMT Community Rating: 3.1 (12 ratings) Public Rating: 3.5 (4 ratings)
Questioning the Foundations by Russ W Otter 24 posts • created by Russ W Otter
• Jun. 15, 2012 @ 12:22 GMT Community Rating: 2.3 (13 ratings) Public Rating: 5.5 (11 ratings)
Zibaldone by Domenico Oricchio 24 posts • created by Domenico Oricchio
• Jun. 15, 2012 @ 12:21 GMT Community Rating: 2.2 (10 ratings) Public Rating: 3.3 (4 ratings)
Misleading Assumptions by Robert L. Oldershaw 85 posts • created by Robert L. Oldershaw
• Jun. 15, 2012 @ 12:21 GMT Community Rating: 2.2 (16 ratings) Public Rating: 4.8 (5 ratings)