(Top: original billiard ball trajectory. Middle: the billiard ball emerges from the future, and delivers its past self a strike that averts the past ball from entering the time machine. Bottom: the billiard ball never enters the time machine, giving … Read More
The EDPS Strategy 2015-2019, “Leading by example” – adopted at the beginning of the current EDPS mandate in 2015 – sets out how we seek to promote a new culture of data protection in the European institutions and bodies. Our … Read More
Karl Popper, as a critical rationalist, was an opponent of all forms of skepticism, conventionalism and relativism in science. In 1935 he wrote Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft, later translating the book into English and publishing it under the … Read More
The singularities from the general relativity resulting by solving Einstein’s equations were and still are the subject of many scientific debates: Are there singularities in spacetime, or not? Big Bang was an initial singularity? If singularities exist, what is their … Read More
Since ancient times, Aristotle has represented the universe as transparent concentric spheres, with the Earth in the center, then, outwardly, the spheres of the Moon, the planets, and the fixed stars. But he did not try to give any explanation … Read More
Different authors have attempted to clarify the aspects of remote action and God’s involvement on the basis of textual investigations, mainly from the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, (Newton, 1999b) Newton’s correspondence with Richard Bentley (1692/93), (Bentley 1693) and Queries … Read More
Andrei Tarkovski (1932 – 1986) was born in Russia. Tarkovsky directed the first five of his seven films (Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975) and Stalker (1979)) in the Soviet Union; his latest films, Nostalghia (1983) … Read More
Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Time Travel”, in Telework, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29776.76804/1, https://www.telework.ro/en/time-travel/ Abstract Time travel is a recognized concept in philosophy and science, but whose scope is highly disputed, giving rise to numerous paradoxes in both philosophy and science. Time travel … Read More
Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Eugenics”, in Telework, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29167.28326/1, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/eugenics/ Abstract The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University College London , were the perceived intelligence factors considered to be … Read More
Predicate logic, also known as first-order logic and first-order predicate calculus, is a formalization of the language of mathematics, proposed by Gottlob Frege, between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. In predicate logic, … Read More
In physics, and more particularly in mechanics, a linear motion is a movement that takes place along a straight line. During a rectilinear motion, the velocity vector v retains its direction, its value being able to remain constant (uniform linear … Read More
(Different approaches toward resolving the mind–body problem) Malebranche and occasionalism The action of the body on the mind and of the mind on the body is impossible; consequently, it is God who acts alone, conforming the will of the mind … Read More
