Tag: Space-Time

• The best in life is yet to be: an essay on healthy mortality

  Another birthday has come and gone. Since this one did not end in a zero, it did not deserve particular attention. But since I am in my sixties now, most of my life is firmly in the past. I’ll be fortunate if only two-thirds of it is in my past. Aside from a nice dinner […]

  Mark

  February 4, 2019

  Life 2019, Philosophy

  Aging, Albert Einstein, Birthdays, Death, Dying, Retirement, Space-Time

• The nature of reality isn’t what you think it is

  The answer to the universe may not be 42 (hat tip to the late Douglas Adams), but its unreality. That is, it is unreal in the way that most of us think of reality. For example, we perceive that the universe unfolds in a linear fashion, that we exist in corporal form, and that the […]

  Mark

  November 24, 2018

  Metaphysics

  Albert Einstein, Consciousness, Physics, Planck’s constant, Reality, Soul, Space-Time, String Theory

• There is no Planet B

  When I have time to fill in my retirement, I can easily spend it among the endless documentaries on YouTube. I have spent a lot of my free time watching videos on space-time. Space-time is the matrix in which we live and it’s very much a real thing. There is no way to separate space […]

  Mark

  May 11, 2018

  Politics 2018, Sociology, Technology

  Astronomy, Colonizing planets, Cosmic radiation, Earth, Ecology, Elon Musk, Interplanetary space, Interstellar space, Mars, Moon, Population control, Proxima Centauri, Relativity, Space-Time, Venus

• On the movable walkway called life

  As you may have noticed, one consequence of being born is that you eventually must die. It may seem unfair, but that’s just the way it is. We are all prisoners in our own unique time stream. We step onto our time stream (we assume) at birth, although some part of it begins at conception. […]

  Mark

  July 25, 2009

  Best of Occam’s Razor, Life 2009, Philosophy

  Death, Life, Space-Time