How should we define reality? 

Einstein’s Explanation of the Unexplainable This question is especially relevant for physicists who struggle on daily basis to DEFINE the “reality” of our universe. Some attempt to predict it ONLY on the abstract mathematical analysis of an environment. For example, Quantum mechanics DESCRIBES the “reality” or state of a quantum system in terms of the … Read more

The Physics of Reality

There is no one realty because each individual creates one that is unique to him or her in an attempt to organize the physical or classical world through information gathered by the senses.  However, physicists have been given the task of defining a universal explanation of it obtained through, in a large part instrumentation and … Read more

Plato’s lesson on Quantum Mechanics

We are reposting this article, first published in 2012 because we do not want its message to become lost in time. Many think the quantum mechanical world of probabilities define our reality.  However, the Greek philosopher, Plato around 375 BC would disagree. In Plato’s allegory "The cave" he describes how people who have been chained … Read more

Life without time

Can anything exist without time constituting at LEAST part of our observable existence?  Is it eternal because it defines the order of occurrence?  In other words because it defines that order there must always be a something before the after. Yet if true it means it has a physical presence because it would be part … Read more

The direction of the mind.

In Neil deGrasse Tyson book Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Kindle Edition Locations 258-262) he tells us "the homing of our senses from birth through childhood allows us, as adults, to pass judgment on events and phenomena in our lives, declaring whether they “make sense”. Problem is, hardly any scientific discoveries of … Read more