Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.771

   A limited application of physics to the study of the universe can be found in the second half of the nineteenth century when the cosmological consequences of the law of entropy increase were eagerly discussed in relation to the Christian doctrines of a world with a beginning and end in time. However, physical cosmology is essentially a twentieth century science which emerged as a result of the discovery about 1930 that the universe is in a state of expansion that possibly started a finite time ago. Cosmology as a subdiscipline of physics differs in some respects from mathematical, philosophica…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cosmology-and-theology.md

2. 02 · _intake0.757

   In physics, they have spent 500 years trying to come up with fundamental laws of nature that explain every aspect of “our reality”. So far, reality has really stumped them. In fact, I bet it is stumping you as well.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/quantum-biology-11-is-their-reality-your-reality.md

3. 03 · archive0.756

   Walter Russell spent a full seven years in writing this book. When it was first published in 1927, it won more condemnation than favor from a world which was not then as ready for it as now. The book mixed science and metaphysics in a manner which nullified its impression upon physicists. Gradually, however, many of its then radical statements have been verified by some of the world's greatest scientists and have won him many followers.

   archive/the-universal-one-1926-walter-russell/TheUniversalOne1926WalterRussell_djvu.txt

4. 04 · yt0.754

   They do not understand that, and uh anyone who's ever tried to uh converse with physicists about this issue will will, I think, confirm what I'm saying. It's almost impossible. And Alfred North Whitehead was one of these. For decades, he went to all the big universities in England and America, and and uh lectured these people on the uh a, the unfoundedness, and b, the the damage to to to physics itself that this postulate uh causes, and there has been almost zero acceptance in the scientific world of what Whitehead had to say. Mhm. Yeah. It's as though a methodological shortcut, which would al…

   yt/V_ZWBkSNMFg-platonic-physics-in-dialogue-with-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.754

   The standard model the our best theory of um uh the interactions of elementary particles and fields today. Uh and they give predictions that are correct to gosh Sean what's the latest what's the longest number of decimal places that we have predictions? >> It's double digits right like you know it's it's more than 10 dec decimal places. So, it's very good. >> In the high energy theory area here at Harvard, there's a glass uh door that has um I believe if I'm remembering correctly, it's the gyroagnetic ratio of the electron. It's the theoretical prediction and the experimental predi…

   yt/gINYis8BgSY-mindscape-323-jacob-barandes-on-indivisible-stochastic-quant/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.753

   Although this classical steady-state theory was abandoned in the 1960s because of its inability to account for new discoveries (such as the cosmic microwave background and the redshifts of quasars), it remains an instructive case in the cosmology-theology discussion. Moreover, the theory is not quite dead yet, as some of its characteristic features survive in the quasi-steady-state cosmology (QSSC) still defended by Jayant Narlikar and a few other cosmologists. This model does not satisfy the perfect cosmological principle, but it assumes an indefinite cosmic time scale during which matter is …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cosmology-and-theology.md

7. 07 · _intake0.752

   Mainline scientific theories may have long lifespans, but are inevitably overturned as accumulating evidence renders them obsolete and brings alternative theories to the fore. This happened in physics in 1905 with the advent of the theory or relativity, and it happened 150 years ago in biology, when many diseases did not spontaneously generate but whose etiologies became explainable when germs and viruses become known. It has now happened again today in molecular biology with ROS and antioxidants effects on mitochondria as well. Dr. Leonora’s work was pretty shocking for the early 1980’s scien…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-teeth-in-disease.md

8. 08 · yt0.751

   Even in this case, we don't know how long they will be compared to things in the past. So take Einstein and his special theory of relativity. There was a real puzzle that he faced which had to do with properties of light and its motion. He wrote down some mathematical ideas just out of his head and thinking about the data and the situation and very quickly those ideas could be tested. In the general theory of relativity 10 years later he writes down equations to try to gain some insight into problems to do with the force of gravity. Within four years you could test those predictions through th…

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

9. 09 · _intake0.751

   Physicists used E=mc2 to build the CERN collider and many other particle accelerators to understand the nuclear reactions in quantum physics. They built machines capable of aiming high energy protons into a target. This alone is capable of creating matter out of the energy they put into the machine in a controlled fashion. The matter they created were particles that they used to construct the theory called the Standard Model of physics. Every particle known to date in the Standard Model theory has been found using this detection system. The identity of these particles also required a lot of co…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-7-photoelectric-effect.md

10. 10 · yt0.750

    Some people talked about it. Bertrand Russell liked to emphasize it. He was primarily a philosopher, but a mathematical philosopher who knew a lot of physics. And he said, "The law of causality I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy--" he just had to get that in there. He couldn't stick to just the philosophy and science-- "only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm." So this should be, I hope, in your minds, quite an extraordinary claim. The law of causality, that you have a cause for every effect, that t…

    yt/x26a-ztpQs8-the-big-picture-sean-carroll-talks-at-google/transcript.txt