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In my previous post I lampooned the Washington Post article that heralded an assumed fact that the entire universe would soon quit accelerating and may even decelerate. Sometimes one…Read more

Well, isn’t that just… something? No.  No, it isn’t something… real; it is a misinterpretation of data attempting to force the universe into a model in which it does…Read more

This article was extracted from one I wrote for Gift of Fire, issue 133, 46-47 (November 2002). There is more to knowledge than a vague familiarity, or lexicographical and…Read more

When a unique concept such as a ‘useful hole’ has been shown to help in understanding the workings of nature in one field, it is natural to consider analogous…Read more

It can be shown that there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible permutations, i.e., ‘states’, of the 3×3 Rubik’s Cube. This is a huge space of possibilities, but there are approaches to meandering…Read more

I think it is fair to say that if Donald Trump were ever to become aware of, and then bestow his brilliance on, the subject of entropy, he would…Read more

So there are some dumb arguments that we need to avoid when we discuss irreversibility and entropy.  We need to start at the beginning with a discussion of the…Read more

I would like to clarify attributions to Ai, and needless to say my own and that of other sources and capabilities involved in creating and enhancing images. There are…Read more

That entropy occurs in our macroscopic world, despite its being comprised solely of submicroscopic entities and their exclusively reversible interactions, is the lie that academics tell themselves and those…Read more

In our previous post we illustrated with baseball players how mediating the interactions between particulate matter by exchanging particles rather than by simple elastic collisions does not in itself…Read more