Can a Planet Orbit Two Stars?
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Original AI-generated illustration for God Plays Dice, imagining two suns setting over the horizon of a rocky circumbinary world.
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Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Recording?
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Original AI-generated illustration for God Plays Dice. Orange ripples suggest airborne sound. Blue lines suggest vibrations traveling through the speaker’s head.
Why Can We Read Mammoth DNA but Not Dinosaur DNA?
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Original AI-generated illustration for God Plays Dice. It pairs a mammoth molar in frozen ground with a fossilized bone in rock. Neither side depicts an actual specimen.
What Is the Higgs Field, and Why Call Its Particle the “God Particle”?
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Original AI-generated conceptual illustration for God Plays Dice. The continuous lines suggest a field and the bright feature suggests an excitation. Colors and geometry are artistic choices; this is an illustration rather than a detector image or a measured view of the Higgs field.
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How do astronomers find planets around other stars?
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Original AI-generated conceptual illustration for God Plays Dice, October 2026. This is not a telescope photograph; the planet’s size, colors and stellar detail are illustrative.
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Could a planet without a star support life?
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Original AI-generated conceptual illustration for God Plays Dice, October 2026. The cutaway shows one hypothetical ocean-under-ice scenario, not an observed planet. Layer sizes, colors and lighting are illustrative, not measurements.
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- Why is there something rather than nothing?Nobody knows, and science alone may never be able to say.Beyond science
- Are science and religion compatible?Yes.Established
- If aliens exist, where is everybody?Nobody knows yet whether life exists beyond Earth.Open question
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The UniverseAnswer
Can a Planet Orbit Two Stars?
Two stars can circle each other while a planet travels around them both. Astronomers confirmed it by watching the moving stars dim.
Mind & MortalityAnswer
Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Recording?
You can recognize every word and still be surprised by the speaker. While you talk, your voice reaches you by two routes.
How We KnowAnswer
Why Can We Read Mammoth DNA but Not Dinosaur DNA?
A frozen mammoth tooth can hold readable DNA. A dinosaur fossil can preserve the shape of a bone for far longer. Here’s why those are different feats.
The UniverseAnswer
What Is the Higgs Field, and Why Call Its Particle the “God Particle”?
An everywhere-present field, a fleeting particle and a famous nickname. What did CERN’s experiments actually measure?
How We KnowAnswer
Mutation by Natural Dominance: One Mutation or a Hundred?
If 100 bacteria carry the same DNA change, did it arise once or many times? The answer matters when testing Ricardo Maldonado’s hypothesis.
Life in the UniverseAnswer
How do astronomers find planets around other stars?
Distant worlds can reveal themselves through changes in starlight and the motion of their stars.
THE UNIVERSE
Questions in The Universe.
- Can a Planet Orbit Two Stars?Established
- What Is the Higgs Field, and Why Call Its Particle the “God Particle”?Established
- Why do physicists still call the matter-antimatter imbalance unsolved?Open question
- Is nature perfectly fair between matter and antimatter?Established
- How did dark matter shape galaxies and the cosmic web?Supported, still debated
- Could dark matter come in many kinds, with its own hidden forces?Open question
- Why does nature come with three families of particles, like the electron, muon and tau?Open question
- Could the edge of a black hole be less perfect than Einstein’s math says?Open question
MIND & MORTALITY
Questions in Mind & Mortality.
- Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Recording?Established
- Why do humans fear death?Supported, still debated
- Do babies understand more than we think?Established
- How did human language begin, and why do we love stories so much?Supported, still debated
- Why do we laugh?Supported, still debated
- What is deja vu, and why does it feel so strange?Supported, still debated
- How does a brain made of cells produce thoughts?Open question
- Do animals have feelings like we do?Supported, still debated
EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS
Questions in Extraordinary Claims.
- What does research say about people who report memories of past lives?Not supported
- Has anyone ever found solid evidence of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster?Not supported
- Can animals sense earthquakes or storms before they happen?Supported, still debated
- Does a full moon really change how people behave?Not supported
- Is the Bermuda Triangle really more dangerous than other waters?Not supported
- What is a miracle, and could science ever confirm one?Open question
- Why does a Ouija board seem to move on its own?Established
- Could aliens have visited Earth and left traces behind?Open question
HOW WE KNOW
Questions in How We Know.
- Why Can We Read Mammoth DNA but Not Dinosaur DNA?Established
- Mutation by Natural Dominance: One Mutation or a Hundred?Author’s hypothesis
- Are the colors in space photos real?Established
- Why do personal stories and gut feelings feel more convincing than data?Supported, still debated
- How do scientists tell a real signal or pattern from a lucky coincidence?Established
- Is luck real, or do we just see patterns in randomness?Established
- Can science answer every question?Established
- What is the placebo effect, and why do studies give some people fake pills?Established
GOD & BELIEF
Questions in God & Belief.
- How do different religions describe the beginning of the universe?Established
- How can two people talk about big beliefs without it turning into a fight?Supported, still debated
- Why has religion appeared in so many human cultures?Supported, still debated
- Did Jesus exist, and what do historians conclude?Established
- Can you accept evolution and keep your faith?Established
- Why do I still feel fear or guilt after I stopped believing?Supported, still debated
- What was the Star of Bethlehem?Open question
- How do I tell my family I have doubts about my faith?Supported, still debated
LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
Questions in Life in the Universe.
- How do astronomers find planets around other stars?Established
- Could a planet without a star support life?Open question
- How can identical twins with the same DNA turn out so different?Established
- How can humans and chimpanzees share so much DNA and still be so different?Established
- Does evolution have a goal or a direction?Established
- What decides which genes win in evolution: fitness, luck or timing?Established
- How do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?Established
- What would happen if we really found alien life, and have we ever come close?Open question
ORIGINS
Questions in Origins.
- Why is it so hard to test ideas about what happened before the hot Big Bang?Open question
- Could there be other universes beyond ours?Open question
- Is the universe fine-tuned for life?Supported, still debated
- If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?Established
- Is the universe infinite?Open question
- How old is the universe, and how do we know?Established
- Did time begin at the Big Bang?Open question
- Why is there something rather than nothing?Beyond science
EINSTEIN CENTENNIAL
Questions in Einstein Centennial.
- Has Einstein’s relativity ever failed a test?Established
- Why does quantum physics seem so weird, even to physicists?Established
- Can quantum entanglement send messages faster than light?Not supported
- Did Einstein lose his argument that God does not play dice?Supported, still debated
- Is anything truly random?Open question
- What did Einstein actually believe about God?Established
MEANING & LIFE
Questions in Meaning & Life.
- How do people live with not knowing the answers to the biggest questions?Beyond science
- Why do rituals comfort people, and do lucky charms actually help?Supported, still debated
- What makes a life well lived?Beyond science
- What is the meaning of life, and who gets to decide?Beyond science
- Why do we feel awe under the night sky, and is it a spiritual experience?Supported, still debated
HD-BLAST RESEARCH
Questions in HD-Blast Research.
- How did the author check whether his matter-antimatter number match was just a coincidence?Author’s hypothesis
- What can a computer simulation of a five-dimensional universe show, and what can’t it show?Author’s hypothesis
- What is the author’s proposal for matter over antimatter?Author’s hypothesis
- What would support the author’s dark-sector hypothesis?Author’s hypothesis
- What should a skeptic check in the author’s lattice idea?Author’s hypothesis
- Einstein Audit: proposed faster-than-light tests and limitsAuthor’s hypothesis
- HD-Blast particle patterns: what the book claimsAuthor’s hypothesis
- How would HD-Blast produce a hot Big Bang?Author’s hypothesis
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