Is Math Objective?

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-On the nature of mathematics and its claims to objectivity: There are three primary viewpoints taken on the nature of mathematics.1 1. Platonism: Numbers and Mathematical concepts...
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Active Irresponsibility

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As a aspiring Physicist, it must have been amazing to live in the 1920's. Theoretical Physics saw a barrage of new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously successful periods for the advancement...
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The Apparent Irreversibility of Time Pt. 2: Is Entropy Essential to Time?

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Why does the process of time appear so irreversible? This question leads us to the second law of thermodynamics. It states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases or equivalently,...
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The Apparent Irreversibility of Time Pt. 1: The Problem

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Initially, the directionality of time does not appear to be a problem. The past becomes the present and the present becomes the future and we ignore the intricacies of its definition. After all, time...
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Short Introduction to Special Relativity

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The key to special relativity, as suggested by its name, is reference frames. The picture below shows an observer standing in the back of a pick-up truck. The pick-up truck is moving with a velocity...
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Why I Don't Quit Physics

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Recently I watched a short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM) from a talk with Michio Kaku, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York. He speaks...
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Reference Frames

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Everything needs an initial reference frame. Every idea/principle. It’s not that everything should be given an initial reference frame. It’s that nothing can be thought of without one. Again, not that...
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