How to Get to God
By alethea |
I would never presume to tell you how to get to God. How can I tell you how to get to God when I can’t even tell you how to ...
Read More Radical Empathy
By alethea |
I love Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk because it allowed me to feel something in a fresh way that I had previously understood intellectually. There are reasons—good reasons—why people hold beliefs ...
Read More Does Light Have Speed?
By alethea |
The central nugget of these ideas is simple. What we perceive as light may not be light proper (light as light or light qua light). What we perceive as light ...
Read More Gravity Is Not a Force
By alethea |
According to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, gravity is not a force. There are no gravitational fields. Gravity ... “is kind of an illusion.” (Derek Muller, Veritasium) Perhaps gravity is ...
Read More Am I a Towering Giant?
By alethea |
The following is from physicist Jim Pivarski of Fermilab: "It is a well-established fact that the universe is expanding. It grows without center, like an inflating raisin cake, but an ...
Read More The Speed of Blood, the Speed of Time
By alethea |
Where does consciousness reside? We haven’t answered that question yet. Perhaps somewhat in the brain, and somewhat in the blood. I have very thick, type A+ blood. Once, when I ...
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