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MATERIALISM FALSIFIED AND ITS CONSEQUENCES After the Higgs Boson was eventually discovered at the Large Hadron Collider mass was found to be constructed from energy arising paradoxically from massless particles which interacted with each other. The physicists kept on dividing till eventually there ...

Time does not require minds to conceive of it. Other wise it would mean that it was frozen for most of the age of the Universe when no complex life existed [ that is known to ] The concept of it that exists within our minds is completely different to the actual dimension that exists in space. The tw...

Time is not conditional on anything so the question of locality or non locality is irrelevant. In theory time could be frozen in a static Universe but that would have to be a Universe in which everything above the quantum level was frozen and that is only a theoretical model. But if time is non depe...

One should make the distinction between nothing and absolute nothing and so nothing is defined as the absence of matter and exists as a vacuum Though absolute nothing does not exist for it violates the Uncertainty Principle . Quantum fluctuations at the sub atonic level are proof of this. As regards...

So if the existence of an object is conditional up on our observation of it then it would logically follow that when not being observed it does not exist. But as that does apply to any object any way then such a hypothesis is false and absolutely so too. For if it were true in an absolute sense then...

We do not give meaning to the Cosmos. We do give meaning or rather attempt to give meaning to our place in the Cosmos which is something entirely different however. As it is all from our own subjective interpretation. One of which is the view that there must be meaning of some kind otherwise it does...

There is no such thing as an information pyramid in an absolute sense. There is only objective truth and subjective truth. Granted the two are not always presented as mutual opposites but that is superfluous to requirement when referencing them from a purely logical perspective. The purest acceptabl...

In logical terms truth can be either the positive proof of a mathematical proposition or the falsification of a scientific hypothesis. This would be classed as objective truth because it is independent of interpretation. There is also subjective truth which is not independent of interpretation but e...

Although I label myself as a materialist / physicalist I do not do so from an absolutely rigid perspective. So if it could be proved that there was some thing that existed beyond the physical then I would accept it just like I accept the existence of physical phenomena that also exist. But less that...

My name is surreptitious57 and I am interested in philosophy and physics and history. I believe in the Scientific Method and the Golden Rule and open minds. I also believe in absolute free speech too. I think nothing should get respect unless or until it has been completely taken to pieces so one ca...

Regarding the O P : the best means of investigating the Universe is the Scientific Method. It is as free from subjective interpretation as is possible to get with any system that has human interaction as standard now. One of its fail safe features is its eternal quest for scientific knowledge with n...