'The Butterfly Effect' is an idea that said a small change of a complex system can lead to a great impact. The term comes from Ray Bradbury's 1952 science fiction story 'A Sound of Thunder', a character use a time machine to travel back in the past where he stepped on a butterfly. After coming back to the present world, he found a...
The Fermi paradox seeks the answer to the question of where the aliens are. The Fermi paradox was named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who is famous for creating the first nuclear reactor. The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations.Like many stars, as there are in our galaxy (100 – 400 billion), there is...
The paradox is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement in logic that can't be true but also can't be declared as false. American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, who is also recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century" has classified paradoxes into three classes in 1962.1.Veridical Paradox: A veridical paradox seems absurd & illogical but actually true. The...
August 9, 1945, 11:02 AM, Deployment by B-29 bomber Bockscar, Airburst at 500 m or( 1650 ft ) above the city70,000 Estimated casualties By year’s end after the attack! This bomb was Equivalent to 21,000 tons TNT and it was an implosion-type! ...