Palo Alto Institute for Advanced Study

        2007-12-18

PAIAS is still in a multi-year effort to revamp the web site that it first published in 1995.

(MINOR NOTE: in attempting to put the “last updated” date in a highly visible place at the top of each web page, we find that our localhost test server gets it right, but other servers sometimes have... eccentricities. And there is also a bug in FrontPage that sometimes gives tomorrow’s date instead of today’s. Apologies if these dates are not usefully accurate.)

New Web Site Offerings

These are the latest major offerings we’ve published over the last year.
Older Web Site Offerings are listed below.
You may want to search for topics by keyword.
There are also more minor Updates and Changes.

None for quite a while, due to failing health and other circumstances.

Older Web Site Offerings

These are older major offerings we’ve published.
You may want to search for topics by keyword.
There are also more minor Updates and Changes.

•         2003 July 4  — Paradox... Oversights
                                 There are new and as yet unrecognized paradoxes in real number
                                 theory and set theory: The Vanishing Remainders Paradoxes,
                                 The Bijection Permutation Paradox, and others.
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•         2003 May 24 — Russell’s Great... Oversights
                                 Russell is famous for the Set Theory paradox that bears his name.
                                 But...  his paradox is flawed with poorly thought out concepts of
                                 set definition and construction, flaws that were and still are part
                                 of Set Theory.
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•         2003 May 24 — Zermelo’s Great... Oversight
                                 Zermelo is the Zermelo of Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory. But...
                                 his Axiom of Separation is paradoxical in a way he would have
                                 considered fatal if he hadn't... oversighted it.
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•         2003 Apr 13 — Induction... Oversights
                                 Induction is fundamental to mathematics, and even logic and philosophy.
                                 But it is misused by mathematicians and logicians in fundamental ways.
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•         2003 Feb 19 — Anti-Evolution vs. Anti-Creation... Oversights
                                 inspired by the article “15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense”
                                 by John Rennie, the Editor in Chief of Scientific American,
                                 that appeared in the July 2002 issue that I found online
                                 at their website (www.sciam.com).
                                 Both sides are guilty of incredible... oversights.
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•         2002 Sept 25 — Cosmology... Oversights
                                 our current standard Big Bang model is way too simpleminded.

•         2002 Jun 19 — Comet Origin... Oversights
                                 the simplest explanation was somehow... oversighted,
                                 and the actual origins are relevant to asteroid dangers, too.
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•         2002 Jun 01 — Entropy’s Great... Oversights
                                 that, like Einstein’s relativity, entropy also has “manifold flaws”;
                                 e.g. entropy is “Brownian” and does not increase monotonically,
                                 and entropy and disorder are not only not equivalent,
                                 in general they don’t even correlate.
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•         2002 Apr 09 — Einstein’s Great... Oversights
                                 that his theory of relativity has “manifold flaws”.
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•         2002 Feb 12 — Fundamental... Oversights
                                 in Mathematics, in Set Theory in particular,
                                 their psychology and philosophy.
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•         2002 Feb 11 — The Good Shepherd’s Paradox
                                 A New Paradox of Infinity in Set Theory.

•         2002 Feb 10 — Newton’s Great... Oversight
                                 Galileo’s Falling Bodies and Lagrange’s Trojan Asteroids
                                 With Their Tadpole and Horseshoe Orbits
                                 Newton’s own laws of gravity (i.e. his theory) actually predict that lighter
                                 and heavier bodies will fall at different rates (when released simultaneously),
                                 except at Lagrangian points L4 or L5;
                                 lighter and heavier bodies also fall at different rates when released in
                                 separate trials, which has (hopefully minor) implications for relativity
                                 (the “secret” is that every mass, no matter how small, interacts with every
                                 other mass... that’s right, Newton, and a real world fact as far as science knows).

Web Site Updates and Other Changes

This is where we’ll announce the most recent updates of older offerings and/or changes to our web site (i.e. if they are substantive enough). If you’ve visited us before and want to know what’s changed, take a look here first.

• 2003 Aug 05 — A More Detailed Introduction to Set Theory and Its Inconsistency has been added to the Introduction to Set Theory and its... oversights.
• 2003 Apr 13 — Revamp of Fundamental... Oversights section.
  Now with new offering concerning Induction... Oversights.

• 2002 Mar 21 — Most of our articles (see New Offerings, above) have been extended with further analyses and commentary. Our home page has been extended, now with sections on PAIAS’s Intended Audience and Philosophy.

• 2002 Feb 10 — PAIAS Revamps Internet Site
  See the announcement for a few more details.

Recent Media Coverage of PAIAS

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