Ask A Genius 1501: Rick Rosner on Falsifiability and Predictions in Informational Cosmology

Rick Rosner frames falsifiability as the ability to find evidence that definitively disproves a theory. For his Informational Cosmology, two key falsifiers would be proving no objects older than 13.8 billion years exist, or confirming dark matter is exotic particles rather than stellar remnants. He predicts: (1) the structure of consciousness mirrors universal physics, (2) objects older than the Big Bang exist, and (3) black holes never collapse to singularities. Possible tests include unusual gravitational lensing, gravitational wave patterns from halo collisions, or variations in constants. He concedes Informational Cosmology currently lacks parsimony but aims to eventually unify constants and structure.

Ask A Genius 1499: Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes, and the Beauty of Physics

Rick Rosner highlights quantum mechanics as the most “neat” physics discovery, still awe-inspiring a century later. He explains the double-slit experiment, where photons interfere with themselves, revealing how reality behaves under uncertainty. This shows physics as the mathematics of incomplete information, defying classical assumptions. Beyond quantum theory, Rosner speculates that the scale of space itself changes inside supermassive black holes, potentially preventing singularities. He suggests that advanced civilizations might exploit these conditions, where constants like the speed of light could shift. For Rosner, both quantum experiments and cosmic extremes demonstrate how information may fundamentally define the universe.

Ask A Genius 1062: The Thor Fabian Pettersen Session

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, this comes from Thor Fabian Pettersen. He says, “The Nature of Timelessness, Entropy, and Matter Recycling: At the core of a black hole, the singularity is a point where spacetime curvature becomes infinite, and our current laws of physics break down. This suggests that our mathematical descriptions, which rely on relative …

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