by Robin Bloor | Mar 22, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Moon and the Magnetotail Most planets have a self-created magnetosphere. As already mentioned; the Moon does not. It has a magnetosphere created for it by the Sun’s solar wind, as occurs with all solar system bodies which do not have a self-generated...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 18, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Called the Iris Nebula because of its vague resemblance to a blue Iris flower. The picture, courtesy of the Hubble telescope, is of the Iris nebula—known as NGC 7023 to its intimate friends. It is roughly 1,300 light-years distant, and lives in the constellation...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 4, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
ALL Cosmology, since the advent of the so called “Age of Enlightenment,” has been an attempt to determine the mechanics of the dead body of the Universe. There has been no effort to conceive of, never mind discuss, the possibility of an absolute...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 9, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
In 1880, undergraduates of Balliol College, Oxford wrote a number of quatrains lampooning various members of the college. About Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, they wrote as follows: First come I. My name is Jowett.There’s no knowledge but I know it.I am...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 29, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Perhaps the most prevalent area of inexactitude in science is in its use of mathematical modeling. Mathematics is not a science per se. It is a very useful related discipline that provides scientists and engineers with extremely useful tools—statistics being just one...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 22, 2021 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The question we discuss is: How useful is contemporary science as a source of knowledge? There are good reasons to be cautious about its various theories and proclamations. So many reasons, in fact, that this is a two part article. Let’s begin with the problem...