Author: Evgenii Rudnyi
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Die Messias
This is my writing for a German lesson. Michael Gantenberg, Neu-Erscheinung Auf einer Reise mit der deutschen Bahn habe ich im DB-Magazine Mobile den Auszug aus dem neuen Buch “Neu Erscheinung” von Michael Gantenberg gelesen. Dies war das Kapitel Die Messias, Folge 1 und es ging um die Schwester von Jesu, Hannah von Nazareth. Das…
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Was in zwei Koffer passt
This is my writing for a German lesson. Veronika Peters, Was in zwei Koffer passt Meine Tochter hat mich gefragt, was ich mir zum Neuem Jahr wünsche. Ich habe gesagt, ein Hörbuch wäre mir recht, denn ich höre den Hörbücher nämlich gern zu. Dann hat sie mir das Buch „Was in zwei Koffer passt“ geschenkt.…
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What crazy scientists make with brain nowadays
I have received an offer to download one audio book for free from Audible.de. Well, it happens that they have their own audio format, not mp3 and they use DRM. However, it was working with my iPod Shuffle and I have decided to take a bite. In Russian this called “halyava” and I could not resist…
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Quantum mechanics and Archimedes
A couple of citations from Lucio Russo, The Forgotten Revolution, How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn “The departure of physics from the ancient scientific method started at the turn of the twentieth century, when an enormous increase in the range of observed phenomena demanded the creation of…
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Matter and little ghosts
An interesting citation from Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe, Chapter 4, Water, Ice, and Vapor, p. 42. By the most important effect of phase organization is to cause objects to exist. This point is subtle and easily overlooked, since we are accustomed to thinking about solidification in terms of packing of Newtonian spheres. Atoms…
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The Universality of Life
Some citations from Christian De Duve, Vital Dust 1995. Chapter 13, The Universality of Life In the introduction to this book, I argued on theoretical grounds – remember the thirteen spades – that the ermergance of life must have involved a very large number of steps, most of which had a high probability of occuring under…
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Stephen Wolfram’s Computational Irreducibility
Stephen Wolfram Some Modern Perspectives on the Quest for Ultimate Knowledge https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/some-modern-perspectives-quest-ultimate-knowledge/ A good overview about computational irreducibility and how it could affect our quest for ultimate knowledge. Just one example from the paper. Let us imagine that the Universe is governed by just a few simple rules and they are completely determenistic. Yet, as they represent…
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Quantum Mechanics
Peter Woit, 2006, Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law After the Elegant Universe I have started Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit to see what opponents of the superstring theory say. In the Preface, there is a nice statement about quantum mechanics, p. xvi Part…