Qulog

A post? Here? On the old blog? Yep.

I updated to the newest wordpress-release. I want to export this blog to wordpress.com, maybe into Qulog 2.0, or else in a new installment of Qulog 1.0. This because I’m about to lose the server space this thing is living in…

But. It doesn’t work! I only get a 500 Internal Server Error when I hit “Export” on the Dashboard>>Manage>>Export.

I know, why am I writing this here? You don’t know how to fix that either…. or do you?

De test is geslaagd, en Qulog gaat echt verhuizen!

De oude meuk zal hier overigens nog wel even blijven staan, maar reageren kan niet meer.

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The test was succesfull, so Qulog is moving for real!

The old stuff will stay here for a while, by the way, but comments are disabled.

Qulog may be moving to qulog.wordpress.com. I hope this would mean, apart from having a simpler url, less worry about technical details and always the latest wordpress installation. I’m not sure how I’ll like it though (maybe I’lll miss plugging in my own plugins?), so for the next few weeks or so I will be blogging there, while the old Qulog stays here. If I move, I’ll try to import all my old posts and comments up there.

So do come around there to see my new place and comment on the wallpaper and the empty rooms… I”l try and have coffee ready!

Just to be a bit more clear: as I said in the first comparing post, I don’t think ID and QM are really comparable in a lot of ways (although it was fun to compare them on their jump and chance aspects). QM is an extensively tested and immensely successful scientific theory, while ID is at best a speculative and difficult to test extension to a scientific theory, and at worst an attempt to incorporate religion into science.

As promised, although a bit late, the second part of my comparison between Intelligent Design and Quantum Mechanics. I’m afraid there’s no real compelling conclusion, so that’s left as an exercise to the reader.

Einstein famously said he didn’t like QM because “der liebe Gott würfelt nicht”: God doesn’t play dice. And I think many ID-proponents would agree.

While I was thinking about the analogy between ID and QM (see part one), I figured something else was important, something to do with chance, or probability, and with - let’s say world views. Very short version: QM’s problem with chance seems to make it fit in certain world views (like ‘new age’), while ID is a solution to a world view’s (usually christian) problem with chance. The chance aspect of QM is embraced by some people as a way to reconcile physics with things like free will and even telepathy, while ID adds purpose to the ‘blind chance’ of evolution to reconcile biology with a Creator.

Lees verder…

Three British girls dreamt of a cool science journal, and decided to begin with a blog. It’s called inkycircus and it’s well worth a visit. They do weekly round-ups of science news, as well as posts on geeky stuff (like a necklace called happiness, with a molecule model of serotonin on it), health news, science news, and much more.

In the mean time, I’ll try and sort out the problems some (at least one) commenter(s) have with their karma….

I installed Spam Karma 2 to help me fight spam comments.

In case your real comments get eaten, contact me and I’lll see what I can do.

I imagine it might seem as though I think all sciences are physics. Which is not the case. I’m just too lazy to post only physics poetry, and / or broadminded enough to like poetry about other sciences just as well. I should have named the series Tuesday Afternoon Science Poetry, maybe.

Anyway, as spring is coming soon (I hope) and the birds are already singing, here’s a poem about a sparrow. It’s in Dutch, but I’m pretty sure that all you out there will understand it, even without using the babelfish in your ear. (Except maybe for the title, if you didn’t read the above lines.)

De Mus

Tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp

Tjielp
etc.

Jan Hanlo

(De Mus can be found on a wall in Leiden.)

Comments here are very welcome. Spam, however, is not (surprise!). Now that I removed the Bad Behaviour anti-spam plugin (because of the problems it caused, see below), I see a lot more spam coming this way….
Anyway, there are just a few rules here:
you need to leave your (nick) name and an email address to submit a comment;
first-time commenters are moderated;
use the word ‘poker’ and your comment will be sent into the void.

Don’t mind me, just checking…