ESSAYS

PHYSICS, LIFE and INTELLIGENCE

James A. Putnam

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CORRECTING PHYSICS THEORY * (html) (pdf)

SCIENTIFIC STRINGENT CRITERIA * (html) (pdf)

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND PHYSICS THEORY * (html) (pdf)

MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS THEORY * (html) (pdf)

ELECTRIC CHARGE - FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT (html) (pdf)

THERMODYNAMIC ENTROPY (html) (pdf)

CRITIQUE OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM (html) (pdf)

A NEW EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE * (html) (pdf)

A NEW GAMMA (html) (pdf)

CRITIQUE OF E=MC² (html) (pdf)

FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH AND UNITS OF PHYSICS (html) (pdf)

INDEFINABLE PHYSICS PROPERTIES * (html) (pdf)

A PHYSICS CHALLENGE (html) (pdf)

PHYSICS, LIFE AND INTELLIGENCE * (html) (pdf)

UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE * (html) (pdf)

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE * (html) (pdf)

TRACING THE ORIGIN OF LIFE * (html) (pdf)

UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE * (html) (pdf)

THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE * (html) (pdf)

HUMAN FREE WILL * (html) (pdf)

FQXi COMMUNITY ESSAY CONTEST ENTRIES

FIRST CONTEST: THE NATURE OF TIME

THE ABSOLUTENESS OF TIME (pdf)

SECOND CONTEST: WHAT’S ULTIMATELY POSSIBLE IN PHYSICS?

WHAT IS POSSIBLE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS? * (pdf)