Physicists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have done some important work to further illuminate the extreme heat of the sun’s corona. According to their findings published in “Why does the Sun’s Corona sizzle at one million degrees Fahrenheit?” (ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 May 2018), the corona may be even hotter than previously thought, making […]
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A Substantivalist Explanation of Dark Matter
Abstract: In this article I recommend that substantivalism change its focus from what it has been traditionally—a thinly veiled effort to explain the current standard models of physics—and instead embrace the proper focus of philosophy—explaining reality itself. Exploiting that new perspective, I define a rigorous and testable model of spacetime as a substance, and propose […]
What Does a Proton Look Like?
What does a proton look like? The simple answer: Don’t ask. As with other subatomic particles, a proton is thought to be a complex of quantum wave functions—one for each of its quarks—distributed probabilistically through space. There is no “physical thing,” understood in realistic, everyday terms to which one could point and say, “There’s a […]
The Substance of Spacetime, New book by Andrew M. Ryan
The Substance of Spacetime: Infinity, Nothingness, and the Nature of Matter by Andrew M. Ryan is the second edition of Ryan’s work of theoretical physics and is now available where books are sold. This iteration of the book has been fully revised with a completely new final chapter that considers several of the current puzzles […]