General Science and Philosophy

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[3] viXra:2309.0138 [pdf] submitted on 2023-09-28 12:29:04

Is It Really Carbon?

Authors: Stephen Meredith Williams
Comments: 6 Pages. CC_BY_4.0

The titular question is specified more fully, showing that the IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change) answer is not the only one, briefly expanding on why the issue matters and alluding to the connection with nuclear power generation. The "Carbon Net Zero" project to prevent global warming is described as "a collective delusion of reference", with brief remarks on belief in human exceptionalism. Also, challenges to that belief are adumbrated from the history of cosmology and from the work of Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and others in the emotivist tradition. Then, alternatives to what we term the carbon hypothesis are described arising from palaeoclimatology. In particular, the work of Milutin Milankovitch is sketched out, explaining the ice ages in terms of some long-term cycles in the motion of the Earth. Johannes Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion were framed in the early Xvii century, and today much more is known about the movement of our Earth.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[2] viXra:2309.0033 [pdf] submitted on 2023-09-06 14:05:17

Causally Complete Science for the Reason-Based Society

Authors: Andrei P. Kirilyuk
Comments: 9 pages, 5 refs; paper presented at the FQXi Essay Contest - Spring, 2023, https://forums.fqxi.org/d/3997-causally-complete-science-for-the-reason-based-society

Modern fundamental science tends to avoid the principle of physical causality and realism, replacing it with heuristically postulated and separated mathematical constructions that impose their own rules before being adjusted to measurement results. While it is officially accepted as the single possible kind of rigorous knowledge, we argue that another, explicitly extended kind of science can provide the causally complete picture of reality avoiding the glaring gaps, growing problems and persisting stagnation of the artificially reduced knowledge paradigm. The logic of science development and especially its current state call for the urgently needed transition to the extended, causally complete kind of knowledge and related sustainable progress at superior creativity levels of self-aware, reason-based society.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[1] viXra:2309.0031 [pdf] submitted on 2023-09-05 23:45:49

About God in Newton's Correspondence with Richard Bentley and Queries in Opticks

Authors: Nicolae Sfetcu
Comments: 8 Pages. (Correction made by viXra Admin - Please conform!)

In Newton’s correspondence with Richard Bentley, Newton rejected the possibility of remote action, even though he accepted it in the Principia. Practically, Newton’s natural philosophy is indissolubly linked to his conception of God. The knowledge of God seems to be essentially immutable, unlike the laws of nature that can be subjected to refining, revision and rejection procedures. As Newton later states in Opticks, the cause of gravity is an active principle in matter, but this active principle is not an essential aspect of matter, but something that must have been added to matter by God, arguing in the same Query of Opticks even the need for divine intervention.
Category: General Science and Philosophy