I remember when I was back in school, a professor put a graph of the results from an experiment on the overhead screen that looked like random dots. Philosophical Engineering He further proceeded to tell us that the data could be predicted by the following trend hoping to get published Read more…
Foundations seem to continually shift in science, classical mechanics describing the world as a cause and effect relationship of matter, quantum mechanics describing instead, a mysterious particle and wave duality, and the possibility of string theory suggesting multiple dimensions. Philosophical Engineering With novel ways of looking at the world being Read more…
We can never speak about nature without speaking about ourselves, because what we see depends on how we look at it. An electron can either be a wave or a particle depending on the experiment that we perform. Philosophical Engineering According to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the observer and the observed Read more…
The equation Einstein developed, E=mc^2, is now the iconic scientific relation not only in the world of physics, but also in pop culture. Its implications reach beyond our association of this equation being developed by Einstein and all of its depictions in scientific culture. Philosophical Engineering Most science programs begin Read more…
Physicist Fritjof Capra explains in his book, The Tao of Physics, a new paradigm for thinking in science. Quantum mechanics is changing the way we view the world, no longer that of classical Newtonian mechanics. Philosophical Engineering Fritjof first examines the relationship between the part and the whole. Newtonian mechanics, though Read more…
Quantum mechanics is a challenging and mind-boggling field. It can be hard to visualize interactions at the subatomic level. Most of us are first educated in Newtonian Mechanics; we most easily understand cause and effect at this scale. This makes the world of quantum, with its “spooky action at a Read more…
Heisenberg established what is known as the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. It states, at the atomic level, the limitations of realizing a given particle’s position and momentum simultaneously. Philosophical Engineering Design Point: This principle is unique in that it defines the degree of uncertainty in determining position or momentum Read more…
As I come up on a year on my journey of learning the short form of Tai Chi, I’m always trying to learn how to deepen my practice. Tai Chi is a form of meditative martial arts focused on grounding oneself. When I first started doing it, I fell into Read more…
Dorothy et al discover upon her arrival at Emerald City that the great OZ that appeared so life like and human, was really a man behind the curtain controlling a fancy computer. Philosophical Engineering Getting past the smoke and mirrors for this trick, artificial intelligence is a field that is Read more…
Do we believe that our fate is in the shuffling of the cards that we are dealt? Are we sitting at the poker table waiting for the right cards to fall into our hands, or is there some skill involved with playing the hands we are dealt? Philosophical Engineering Imagine Read more…