# Arthur Eddington

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Meanwhile : Astronomy and the order of power

The author is a principal researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. "There is a high probability of a new planet near this coordinate." This line comes from an 1846 letter written by French astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier. Upon reading it, German astronomer Joha…

UNAWE Space Scoop - A Rule-Breaking Supermassive Black Hole

https://spacescoop.org/en/scoops/2602/a-rule-breaking-supermassive-black-hole/ Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole, or SMBH, that is breaking all the rules! Well, one rule anyway. It's called eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey, or eFEDS, J084222.9+001000. Whew! It is also called…

Polymath World Episode 53 - Prof David Wilkinson

ASTROPHYSICS AND THEOLOGY Dr David Wilkinson is an extraordinary polymath - a man with 2 PhDs and a published scholar across both science and theology. He is Professor of Theology and Principle of St John's College, University of Durham. He has authored many books including God, Stephen Hawking an…

"A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

(Initially written for the LW Wiki, but then I realized it was looking more like a post instead.) In 1895, the physicist Ignaz Robert Schütz, who worked as an assistant to the more eminent physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, wondered if our observed universe had simply assembled by a random fluctuation of …

Time's arrow

The arc of a bow and its arrow are our primitive reference for fully understanding the entropy that life entails. An entropy that overwhelms—or bores, depending on so many things—even the brightest minds. I imagine this is the origin of the narrative arc of a story: cutting through space like an ar…

Sleep Story 410 – The Nature of the Physical World by Arthur Eddington | Calm Bedtime Story

Sleep Story 410 – The Nature of the Physical World by Arthur Eddington | Calm Bedtime StoryTonight’s reading comes from The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1928, written by Sir Arthur Eddington, and based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1927. The book …

A Conscious Cosmos – Episode 62

The doctrine that the world is a living being, rational, animate and intelligent, is laid down by Chrysippus in the first book of his treatise On Providence, by Apollodorus in his Physics, and by Posidonius… And it is endowed with soul, as is clear from our several souls being each a fragment of it…

S04E09: HUM223 Wk7: Lights All Askew: The Eclipse That Unsettled the Modern Mind (Dali, Newton, Einstein & More)

Title: Lights All Askew: The Eclipse That Unsettled the Modern Mind (Dali, Newton, Einstein & More) Description: On May 29, 1919, a Quaker astronomer stood on a cloudy island off Africa, waiting to see if starlight would bend. When it did, Newton's clockwork universe gave way to Einstein's relat…