A scientific wager is a wager whose outcome is settled by experiment or observation, following the scientific method. It typically comprises a commitment...
15 KB (1,924 words) - 16:23, 18 September 2024
Legal wager, required by both parties at the preliminary hearing, under the early Roman Republic's Legis Actiones procedure Scientific wager, a wager whose...
1 KB (228 words) - 10:46, 3 October 2024
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
51 KB (6,659 words) - 22:17, 31 July 2024
The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between business professor Julian L. Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon...
15 KB (2,014 words) - 15:00, 3 July 2024
HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for...
18 KB (2,149 words) - 16:46, 26 August 2024
Kip Thorne, and engaged him in a scientific wager about whether the X-ray source Cygnus X-1 was a black hole. The wager was an "insurance policy" against...
185 KB (17,999 words) - 05:42, 2 October 2024
List of bets (category Wagers)
Vegas. He doubled his money when the ball landed on a red number. Scientific wager, a list of examples For sale: baby shoes, never worn, a six-word story...
7 KB (802 words) - 16:56, 9 February 2024
directly into a black hole. Cygnus X-1 was the subject of a friendly scientific wager between physicists Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne in 1975, with Hawking—betting...
66 KB (7,278 words) - 14:51, 6 September 2024
Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...
27 KB (2,532 words) - 04:40, 13 September 2024
Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research...
52 KB (6,576 words) - 23:15, 1 October 2024
Julian Simon (section Proposed second wager)
to "put my money where my mouth is," Simon challenged Ehrlich to a scientific wager to test their theories regarding future resource abundance, betting...
55 KB (6,151 words) - 18:54, 9 October 2024
development. He and developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert have made a scientific wager about the importance of DNA in the developing organism. Wolpert bet...
96 KB (10,078 words) - 14:21, 19 September 2024
Light & Wonder (redirect from Scientific Games International)
changed its name from Autotote to Scientific Games Corporation in 2001. By 2002, two-thirds of the $20 billion wagered annually on racing in North America...
21 KB (1,852 words) - 21:37, 6 August 2024
Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet (category Wagers)
date on the 10 January 2018 episode of Nova on PBS. Hawking radiation Scientific wager Preskill, John. "Black hole information bet". California Institute...
8 KB (897 words) - 14:29, 27 December 2023
GeneSweep or Gene Sweepstake was a sweepstake and scientific wager for scientists to bet on the total number of genes in the human genome. The sweepstake...
9 KB (874 words) - 20:25, 9 March 2024
a dealer and to a player. If the player's card is higher, they win the wager they bet. However, if the dealer's card is higher, the player loses their...
5 KB (531 words) - 20:35, 4 April 2024
Turing's Wager is a philosophical argument that claims it is impossible to infer or deduce a detailed mathematical model of the human brain within a reasonable...
5 KB (484 words) - 20:35, 1 August 2024
Let It Ride is a casino table game based on poker, where the player wagers on a five-card poker hand formed by their own three cards and two community...
6 KB (643 words) - 01:44, 11 September 2024
The Transhumanist Wager is a 2013 science fiction novel by American author Zoltan Istvan. The novel follows the life of Jethro Knights, a philosopher...
10 KB (881 words) - 07:20, 11 August 2024
Creationism (redirect from Scientific criticism of creationism)
"The Creation Myths: Internal Difficulties". The Rejection of Pascal's Wager: A Skeptic's Guide to Christianity. Singapore: Paul Tobin. Archived from...
163 KB (16,480 words) - 12:55, 2 October 2024
Metaphysical naturalism (redirect from Scientific naturalism)
could exist any entities which lie, in principle, beyond the scope of scientific explanation. Regarding the vagueness of the general term "naturalism"...
38 KB (3,771 words) - 09:45, 2 September 2024
Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described...
15 KB (1,446 words) - 18:03, 7 September 2024
wager is typically placed in a designated area next to the box for the main wager. A player wishing to wager on a side bet usually must place a wager...
54 KB (6,217 words) - 16:09, 3 October 2024
the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. The latter contains Pascal's wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine, a fideistic probabilistic...
62 KB (7,249 words) - 20:36, 19 September 2024
reduce the negative emotions felt if the team loses a game. Some scientific wagers, such as Hawking's 1974 "insurance policy" bet, fall into this category...
33 KB (4,320 words) - 07:42, 19 September 2024
aboard one of the other vessels on the same expedition as the Wager. "CHILE 2006". Scientific Exploration Society. 2006. Archived from the original on 7...
5 KB (474 words) - 00:12, 29 November 2023
Relationship between religion and science (redirect from List of scientific and medical advances opposed by religion)
vary across cultures and change over time. Most scientific and technical innovations until the scientific revolution were achieved by societies organized...
194 KB (23,262 words) - 19:37, 9 October 2024
Tor D. Wager is the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective...
8 KB (688 words) - 02:47, 29 November 2023
Secular humanism (redirect from Scientific humanism)
by faith. Reason, evidence, scientific method – A commitment to the use of critical reason, factual evidence and scientific method of inquiry in seeking...
67 KB (8,031 words) - 16:08, 23 September 2024
Mephistopheles will bring him to ruin. To avoid this fate, Faust makes a wager: if Mephistopheles can grant Faust an experience of transcendence on Earth—a...
26 KB (3,058 words) - 11:21, 3 October 2024