Tag Archives: science

Finding The Almost-God

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As I’ve written before, my Jewish-born parents wanted me to find my own god. Somehow, I think they might have been hoping for an afterlife. Dad was in business and developed some of the first business math. Mom was a beautician, the creative type, but also a lover of nature. My father was brought up …

FREE WILL

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There have been many discussions and books about free will. unfortunately whenever we discuss anything, we need to define it, and along with the idea of consciousness, free will is hard to define. I like to start with the simplest construction as an offshoot of entanglement. We talk about entanglement, but we rarely look into …

Does Time Exist [part 1]

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Does Time Exist? Does what we think of as TIME, the duration between each of our samplings of the universe, really exist? I like to start with the Uncertainty Principle, posited by Werner Heisenberg. To me, UNCERTAINTY (short for this principle) refers to PERSPECTIVE. What we mean by PERSPECTIVE is the formal method we use …

EFFECTS OF UNIVERSAL EXPANSION

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EFFECTS OF UNIVERSAL EXPANSION PREDICTED BY 2D FLUID-FLUID UNIVERSE   (Where interfacial tension of boundary is assumed analogous to the gravitational tension between masses in expanding space) WHY DO LARGER PLANETS (formed in the accretion disk of a star) MOVE AWAY FROM THEIR SUNS? By the time they interact with the expanding universe (the distance from …

CONTINUOUS VERSUS DISCONTINUOUS

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Consciousness: Continuous or Discontinuous? Before I discuss either aspect in depth, I want to explain why I would look at continuity as a basis for describing Consciousness. Again, I’d like to emphasize here that all we can do is DESCRIBE. A description is the story we tell about our sample data. And our sample data …