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An Interesting Scientific Question
Martin Rees
reply by George Ellis
[short_description] The question “Do other universes exist?” is a genuinely scientific one. Martin Rees outlines why it may be answered within a few decades, and why he already suspects that the answer may be yes.
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Non-Empirical But Scientific
Richard Dawid
reply by George Ellis
[short_description] We are not free to choose the world we live in. We may prefer living in a world where physical theories are empirically fully testable within a short time. But it so happens that this is not the case.
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Business as Usual
Daniel Harlow
reply by George Ellis
[short_description] The notion of a multiverse is not scientific, George Ellis has argued. But Daniel Harlow makes the case that multiverse theories are indeed predictive, as scientific theories should be.
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On the Essence of Discovery
Matthew Kleban
reply by George Ellis
[short_description] When progress in science entails revolutionary shifts in world view, controversy inevitably follows. George Ellis has reacted against the multiverse theory, but Matthew Kleban comes to its defense.
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On Testability in Science
Ikjyot Singh Kohli
reply by George Ellis
[short_description] In this letter, Ikjyot Singh Kohli debates the applicability of the rigorousness of the scientific method to some of the theories that George Ellis discusses, especially with respect to the multiverse.
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The Importance of CISS
James Tour
[short_description] The neglect of chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) can and has caused data misinterpretation regarding the manner by which biological systems respire, synthesize, process, and transfer information.
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Infirm Views on the Old
Michael Valenzuela
reply by William von Hippel
[short_description] Wisdom is accrued by many, but certainly not all, elders. Here Michael Valenzuela and William von Hippel agree. But in other aspects of the effects of aging on the brain, they cannot.
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Consider the Alternative
Thomas Suddendorf
[short_description] Humans can travel mentally in time and imagine their remote future lives. The unwelcome prospect of suffering the “lamentable imbecility” of old age drives research aimed at slowing age-related decline.
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Wisdom and Aging
Susan Charles
[short_description] It is a fact that we become less physically resilient as we age. What makes less sense is that wisdom—in attitude and perspective about life—would appear during a time in life marked by decline.
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