Answer to December 2019 Figuring Physics

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Does Physics Answer Metaphysical Questions?

According to logical positivism, so the story goes, metaphysical questions are meaningless, since they do not admit of empirical confirmation or refutation. However, the logical positivists did not in fact reject as meaningless all questions about for example, the structure of space and time. Rather, key figures such as Reichenbach and Schlick believed that scientific theories often presupposed...

From 2009 to 2019: what a change!

May 2019 – The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and the Frankfurter Allgemeine, based on a large survey conducted in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and China, have concluded that the intensive care unit (ICU) is the most appealing workplace in the world. Financial institutions and the stock exchange had been ranking highest in these regular international surveys until 2008, w...

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