A Beethoven Hoax?

The Einstein Hoax

Standard experimental techniques exist to determine the propagation speed of forces. When we apply these techniques to gravity, they all yield propagation speeds too great to measure, substantially faster than light-speed. This is because gravity, in contrast to light, has no detectable aberration or propagation delay for its action, even for cases (such as binary pulsars) where sources of grav...

African Eve: Hoax or Hypothesis?

The replacement hypothesis proposes that “modern humans” evolved only in sub-Saharan Africa, through a speciation event rendering them unable to breed with other hominins. They then spread throughout Africa, then to Asia, Australia and finally to Europe, replacing all other humans by exterminating or outcompeting them. In this critical analysis of the replacement hypothesis it is shown that it ...

Black Holes, Bandwidths and Beethoven

It is usually believed that a function φ(t) whose Fourier spectrum is bounded can vary at most as fast as its highest frequency component ωmax. This is in fact not the case, as Aharonov, Berry and others drastically demonstrated with explicit counter examples, so-called superoscillations. It has been claimed that even the recording of an entire Beethoven symphony can occur as part of a signal w...

"Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing His Piano His Way." By William S. Newman

A machine resolution of a four-color hoax

Figure 1. The April Fool’s hoax map from 1975. Developing an algorithm to 4-color planar maps leads to two interesting computational issues: 1. Devising an algorithm that will 4-color planar graphs. Since the proof that such an algorithm works would yield the 4-color theorem, one will have to deal with the fact that the algorithm is likely to be not proved to work. One hopes that it will simply...