Physical Basis of Fragility

For 25 years our ignorance of the physical basis of this mass loss process has been the barrier to progress in understanding horizontal branch morphology. I review some recent observational and theoretical results which may be giving us clues about the nature of the mass loss process.

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Particle and Astro-physics Challenge Kant’s Phenomenolism

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy ◽

10.5840/wcp20-paideia199837686 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 323-333

Author(s):

Lawrence H. Starkey

Keyword(s):

General Relativity ◽

Black Hole ◽

Physical Basis ◽

Primary Sources ◽

One Dimension ◽

Space Curves ◽

Slowing Down ◽

Parity Conservation ◽

Charge Parity ◽

Einstein’S General Relativity

For two centuries Kant's first Critique has nourished various turns against transcendent metaphysics and realism. Kant was scandalized by reason's impotence in confronting infinity (or finitude) as seen in the divisibility of particles and in spatial extension and time. Therefore, he had to regard the latter as subjective and reality as imponderable. In what follows, I review various efforts to rationalize Kant's antinomies-efforts that could only flounder before the rise of Einstein's general relativity and Hawking's blackhole cosmology. Both have undercut the entire Kantian tradition by spawning highly probable theories for suppressing infinities and actually resolving these perplexities on a purely physical basis by positing curvatures of space and even of time that make them reëntrant to themselves. Heavily documented from primary sources in physics, this paper displays time’s curvature as its slowing down near very massive bodies and even freezing in a black hole from which it can reëmerge on the far side, where a new universe can open up. I argue that space curves into a double Möbius strip until it loses one dimension in exchange for another in the twin universe. It shows how 10-dimensional GUTs and the triple Universe, time/charge/parity conservation, and strange and bottom particle families and antiparticle universes, all fit together.

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The physical basis of memory

Cognition ◽

10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104533 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 104533

Author(s):

C.R. Gallistel

Keyword(s):

Physical Basis

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