Tag: mathematics
Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”
Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.”
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.
Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism
From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people.
In the “Mathematical Glory” of the Universe, Physicist Discovered the “Truly Divine”
As it happens, these are all themes that are developed with great rigor and depth in Center for Science & Culture director Stephen Meyer’s next book.
Do Physicalists Believe in Black Holes?
A materialist view of reality leaves out much of reality (love, reason, mercy, truth, etc.) so skittish materialists often call themselves “physicalists.”