Counting Weeks and Days
There is a Biblical Commandment to count the days between the Passover and Shavuot, the “Feast of Weeks” (a.k.a. Pentecost). We start counting on the
April 28, 2020 / 4 Iyyar 5780
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Futurist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
(A popular summary of the paper “Towards Futuristic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics” by Alexander Poltorak being currently prepared for publication) Quantum mechanics (QM) is one
June 19, 2019 / 16 Sivan 5779
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Relational Space
Meditations on the Maaseh Merkavah – II This post is a sequel to my previous post, “Space – Between Future and Past.” For background information,
June 17, 2019 / 14 Sivan 5779
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Ten Sephirot and Special Relativity
The Special Theory of Relativity, published by Albert Einstein in 1905, was a game changer. It ushered the era of new physics dubbed by some
June 2, 2019 / 28 Iyyar 5779
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Wigner’s Friend Paradox
Amicus est Socrates, magister meus, sed magis est amica veritas. “Socrates is my friend but a greater friend is truth” – Plato c. 428-348 BCE.
March 17, 2019 / 10 Adar II 5779
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Jacob Teaches Wave-Particle Duality
…and he [Jacob] took some of the stones of the place and placed [them] at his head, and he lay down in that place (Gen. 28:11)
November 18, 2018 / 10 Kislev 5779
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The Second Derivative — The Secrets of The Double Cave
And he [Avraham] spoke with them, saying, “…Listen to me and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar. That he may give me
November 7, 2018 / 29 Heshvan 5779
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First Fruits and the Wave-Particle Duality of Nature
…Thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that the Lord thy
September 10, 2017 / 19 Elul 5777
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Global or Local?
And let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them (Ex. 25:8) In modern physics, there are two paradigms usually expressed as locality
February 2, 2014 / 2 Adar I 5774
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On the Nature of Time and the Age of the Universe
Presented at the International Torah and Science Conference in Miami International University on December 18, 2005 Alexander Poltorak Introduction. This is the third in
August 15, 2012 / 27 Av 5772
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