Popular Science


Collection of my brief articles on popular science. Most have also been published in Spanish.
Full list at: https://manuelalfonseca.acta.es/docs/papersd.htm.

Manuel Alfonseca

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Quantum paradoxes

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The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics causes paradoxes, at least apparent, when one tries to apply it to the macroscopic world....
Thursday, April 18, 2024

The aliens are coming!

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Before the 20th century, some philosophers considered the possibility of the existence of intelligent aliens, from outside the Earth. We ca...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Impossible? Perhaps not!

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Lord Kelvin Throughout the history of science there have been proofs that something is impossible. These proofs are usually true in mathema...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Genes arising from nothing?

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I have been asked me to clarify a recent piece of news that has hit the popular science press with headlines like the following: New gen...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

The mystery of the cosmological constant

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Alexander Friedmann (Александр Фридман) This post completes a previous post with a similar title: The problem of the cosmological constant ....
Thursday, March 21, 2024

They bark, therefore we ride

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Illustration by Gustavo Doré In September 2003, reading the book On the Will in Nature (1836) by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenh...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Pope Francis, Technocracy and Artificial Intelligence

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The last Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis, entitled Laudate Deum and published on October 4, 2023, dedicates a chapter to the technoc...
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