Vorpal
Blog URL http://vorpal.us
Located Haddon Heights, New Jersey USA
Tags Philosophy, Science, Government, Religion, Fun, Book Reviews, Particle Physics
Vorpal.us is designed to look at the world through the lens of science. To challenge assumptions of Religion or custom, and find not the truth, which we shall see is subjective but the fact!
Latest Blog Posts
- Mr Murphy strikes on Apr 14, 2009 in Current Events
When attempting to update Vorpal.us to be able to use the newest version of Wordpress, I succeeded in saving only a partial backup of the site before trying to convert the character set to UTF-8. Unfortunately, many of my posts have been truncated af...
- Jabberwocky Decoded! on Apr 9, 2009 in jabberwocky portmanteau
Hollywood Flakes has decoded the Jabberwocky. I am not sure just how accurate her decryption engine performs. I think that I have a more sinister vision of the Jabberwock - somewhere between Darth Vader and a “fast zombie”. Galumph ove...
- New Odds on Pascal’s Wager on Mar 17, 2009 in Conjecture Philosophy Religion Belief in God Bet on Life Disbelief in God Heaven Hell Odds
The French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote in his Pensées, a collection of notes made towards the end of his life, that when making a life wager on the existence of God, belief in God is the best bet. This is known as Pascal̵...
- An Experiment with Time on Mar 5, 2009 in Science Time Antares information flow simultaneity speed of light SR 1572 tense time cone
Is time immutable, or is it subjective? Philosophers have debated the nature of time, and whether it is intrinsically ordered and has tense. I have devised a mind experiment to show that time depends not only on the observer, but the observerR...
- A Trillion Dollars Visualized on Feb 12, 2009 in Current Events Acres of dollars lots of money size of a trillion dollars Trillion Dollars
Continuing on the theme of my recent post on the difficulty of understanding scope of large numbers, a friend of mine published a compelling demonstration of the size of a Trillion Dollars: With the latest round of Washington bailout money approach...
- “In this world nothing is certain except Death and Taxes” on Feb 5, 2009 in Government History bush tax cuts death death and taxes estate tax inheritance tax
Nothing is as true as Ben Franklin’s quote. We will all die, and the government will have its pound of flesh. Estate taxes involve the confluence of both. One of the results of this type of taxation is that it inhibits the formation of Americ.
- The Fountain of Knowledge on Jan 21, 2009 in Conjecture History Philosophy critical thinking opinion versus fact propaganda standard references suppressed ideas web information
John Locke in Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) states that everything we know is from experience. He identifies two fountains of all knowledge - “the observation of external sensible objects”, and ” the internal operati...
