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Prof Sverre Holm

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Professor em. in physics. University of Oslo: Power laws, fractional derivatives, ultrasound. Books in 2025: The imagined conflict (Wipf & Stock). Norway: Science with overtones

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Not very surprising!

11.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoyed speaking to students last night in Belgrade, Serbia about how "Galileo was right and so were his adversaries - A scientist evaluates the Galileo affair." Some very good discussions afterwards

18.02.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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31.01.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Fin, lavmælt og interessant samtale om vitenskap og tro med Gaute Einevoll som ble godt ledet av Linda Andernach Johannesen ! www.tvl.no/nb/video/166...

21.01.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ten models for the solar system in the 1600's Frontispiece of Riccioli's 1651 New Almagest ( Wikipedia ) In order to understand the debate around the Copernican heliocentric system and G...

I know I have most of them here: imaginedconflict.blogspot.com/2023/10/ten-...

But an important key to finishing a book, is to limit oneself!

16.01.2026 10:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would encourage you to write a book(let) about the history and fate of the geoheliocentric system!

It would be very helpful for putting the scientific discussions of the 1500 and 1600s in perspective.

16.01.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sehr interessant, selbst fΓΌr mein Schuldeutsch.

15.01.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Det er utrolig fascinerende Γ₯ se disse mΓ₯nene selv i teleskop!

15.01.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A scientist evaluates the Galileo affair Page 86 from "The Imagined Conflict" A persistent myth is that Galileo's observations (see image) were proof that the Earth revolves around ...

A scientist evaluates the Galileo affair.
In β€œThe Imagined Conflict”, I write how both Galileo and his critics were right. My claim is that this is one of the most accessible and comprehensive accounts available about the science at the time of Galileo. imaginedconflict.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-sc...

15.01.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts β€” physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on β€” remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let

11.01.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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❗️Putin planned to β€œcapture Kyiv in three days” in his β€œspecial operation”.
Now this war has already lasted longer than the entire German-Soviet war of 1941–1945.

11.01.2026 08:23 πŸ‘ 289 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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How did that go?

This is just one of the many lies and false predictions made by Musk

30.12.2025 06:54 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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A Christmas gift?
Are you interested in the topic of Science and God, but find it hard to follow books on the topic because they use words only? Then "The imagined conflict" may be just right for you - with its 41 illustrations. Here's fig 13 - Cosmic evolution. imaginedconflict.blogspot.com

21.12.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Cees - it would be nice to meet at some point in the future!

19.12.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Imagined Conflict- Wipf and Stock Publishers Of course, there is a conflict between science and God, many say, and they do not even bother to ask for justification. This myth-based view is dominant in o...

A Christmas gift?
The ambition of "The Imagined Conflict" is to provide justification for how classical Christian faith can coexist with science. You may feel that it is unproblematic, but may not be able to justify why. Then this book is for you. wipfandstock.com/979838525765...

19.12.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Impressive with many kms of range! For my 2005 paper I found: "Silbo has been reported to reach 2-3 km in wooded, open valleys and 8-10 km in waveguide-like valleys with rock sides of low absorption [10] (p. 40). [10] R. G. Busnel and A. Classe, Whistled Languages, Springer (1976)."

27.11.2025 08:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Had great fun some years ago trying to estimate the possible range of whistling Silbo, scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=n...

26.11.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Imagined Conflict- Wipf and Stock Publishers Of course, there is a conflict between science and God, many say, and they do not even bother to ask for justification. This myth-based view is dominant in o...

My English-language book is finally out! wipfandstock.com/979838525763...

24.11.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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God and Science: A Seminar of Contemporary Viewpoints | Faraday

Looking forward to a seminar in Cambridge on Friday to hear BollorΓ© and Bonnassies, hoping to understand why their book has sold 400 000. Now in English "God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution." www.faraday.cam.ac.uk/event/god-an...

17.11.2025 09:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

06.11.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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En kasse med "Vitenskap med overtoner" er nΓ₯ i hus. Om du ΓΈnsker et eksemplar, gjerne signert, sΓ₯ ta kontakt for Γ₯ gi meg adresse Γ₯ sende til (om vi ikke treffes pΓ₯ annet vis) - og Vipps 349 kr til 932 15 705.
Se omtale og smakebit pΓ₯ forlagets hjemmeside: www.forlagshusetlunde.no/vitenskap-me...

04.11.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My coauthor with the first copies of our new book: "Science with overtones: 21 scientists and their faith in God"

31.10.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The UK is Europe’s cloudiest place. Marseille is the northernmost blue sky capital of the continent. The Mediterranean offers plenty of blue skies of course.

22.10.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Cosmos and Human Health Annual symposium at the cross-faculty Centre for Science and Faith.

Looking forward to speaking on "An imagined science-religion conflict: The testimony from physicists" in Denmark on Friday, teol.ku.dk/english/cale...

22.10.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very grateful for recommendations

20.10.2025 06:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A fabulous job by Wipf & Stock with the cover of this upcoming book!

20.10.2025 06:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMany times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure”

20.10.2025 05:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'Emergence explains nothing and is bad science -
Life, consciousness and the cosmos are not β€œemergent”'

13.10.2025 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"We can exquisitely, spatially map and tell you where dark matter is … what it does … but we don’t know what it is. It’s akin to knowing everything about sand dunes: how they form, how they get reshaped … but not knowing what a grain of sand is made of."

20.09.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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