Footnote Physicist

 by Steven Gussman         The mechanism behind the present accelerated metric expansion of the universe is not yet well-understood.  Most often, astrophysicists deduce that there must be a "dark" energy of a particular density associated with this expansion.  This is not particularly strange until you realize that the claim is that it is a static scalar field (that is, a field whose density does not depend on its volume; shrink or stretch space and the density of dark energy remains constant).  This rather obviously violates the conservation of energy (of course dark energy must indeed be created and destroyed when spacetime is expanded or contracted).  Astrophysicist  Ethan Siegel is forthright about this: he believes, due to the empirical expansion of the universe, that energy is  not  strictly conserved (and he admirably wants the mainstream to admit that this is their necessary belief as well). [1]    ...

 by Steven Gussman THE HYPOTHESIS 1           Why do warm things smell more-so than cold things? The obvious answer is that temperature is just the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance: colder things are stiller, and the constituents of hotter things are more-so in motion. This motion should then kick off molecules into the environment where they may be received by noses: smelled. Yet this explanation is purely physical, what if there is another cause, shaped by evolution by natural selection? Perhaps the effect is also by virtue of the fact that by being warm, the scent preferentially travels towards cool noses.           The passive smell hypothesis is that in animals for which smelling is an important sense (for sensing one's inert environment, and for communication via pheromones), the nose is elongated away from the warm body; made of cartilage; moist or runny (especially in colder weathe...