Our list of **25 Science "Facts" That Were Proven Incorrect** showed that even when scientists mess up, science itself isn't faulty. Errors are essential to science. Think of it like a mystery tale, always tryin
FEven the word “theory” can be a problem. Unlike most people, who use the word to describe a passing conjecture that they often regard as suspect, physicists have very specific ideas in mind when they talk about theories. For physicists, theories entail a definite physical framework embodied ...
The original goal of the AI field was to create machines with general intelligence comparable to that of humans. Early AI pioneers were optimistic: In 1965, Herbert Simon predicted in his book The Shape of Automation for Men and M...
however, that what we think of as being a physical particle, is a disturbance in a field of energy. But scientists don’t even know what the field actually looks
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” ―Albert Einstein A new picture of reality has emerged since Einstein published his theory of relativity in 1905.Quantum mechanics has proven elements of classical physics to be incorrect. ...
I know several thousand things that won’t work”,this is still a powerful idea. Science embraces failure; without it nothing would have been discovered, no theories would have proven, and no laws would have been established. One must fail in order to succeed, and one usually must fail sev...
whether that is extraterrestrial life or superintelligent machines, will require theories grounded in general principles. In the end, the meaning and consequences of “AGI” will not be settled by debates in the media, lawsuits, or our intuitions and speculations but by long-term scientific investi...
Understanding the beautiful, complex world we live in, and using that knowledge to do useful things, is its own reward and why taxpayers should be happy to fund research. Scientific theories are not perfect replicas of reality, but we have good reason to believe that they capture significant ...
“EVERYTHING WE ARE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE AND WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLIS WRONG!It is all absurd! “Consciousness creates reality and thoughts form matter!If you want to be powerful you have to go bythe factsabout reality and that means discovering the truth! Otherwise you are as blind as a bat...
Hawking first achieved fame when he was still healthy enough to walk, as a graduate student in physics at Cambridge University in 1964. In general, there were two main theories on the origin of the universe. The first...