REALITY

What is reality? When someone says that something is real, what do they mean? I can’t tell you how someone else might define “real,” but for me “real” has the property of existence. So you might say, “What is existence?” For my definition of existence, I have to go back to the beginning of our …

SIZE

    In my investigation of what space is and how it differs from the dimension of time—or not—I came up against something that should look strange to most of us, but that is taken in stride. Namely, the size of things.   Coming back from Vegas through all of the beautiful, yet never-ending desert, …

Analogs: What We Can Know

Analogs: What We Can Know What is the essence of what we can know? That is a vastly different question than What is Behind What is? Studying the applied math we use to solve scientific problems, we learn the extent of that language, what we are capable of understanding. The energy equation and its solutions, …

Art Precedes Science

They say. . . who says? . . . I don’t know, but I’ve heard that Art precedes Science by 50 years.  I just know that I saw this performance-art experiment on TV this morning. The experiment illustrates how at least two perspectives are required to transfer information back and forth across a boundary to …