According to Abhay Ashtekar, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University, the Big Bang theory of cosmology will need to be replaced by the Big Bounce. Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is a derivative of loop quantum gravity (LQG), which successfully combines Einstein’s General Theory of Relavitity based theory […]
What River?
Carlin Romano, covering the Philadelphia meeting of the American Philosophical Association, makes me wonder about the choice I made of English literature over philosophy. But then paper titles like “Analyzing Bias in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Orgasm” and “Depression, Infertility and Erectile Dysfunction: The Invisibility of Female Sexuality in Medicine” make me wonder if it […]
Harold Pinter
It is one of the characteristics of art – the greater the art, the greater the characteristic – that it points to (“captures” would precisely misstate the idea) the complexity of nature, of situation, of emotion, of expression, of judgment: the entire human calculus. It is so much so that rarely may the creator be […]
This Time, Shop with Meaning
Books Blog tells us how shopping, for Emma Bovary and others, not only busts bank accounts, but expands horizons. It is a dream of the cosmopolis. Now it’s true that Madame Bovary’s racking up of credit and her consequent response when the bailiffs come knocking should be a dire lesson for us all. But for […]
Feel Flows
PhysOrg.com reports that two Finnish scientists have published a study in the International Journal of Astrobiology entitled “Why Did Life Emerge.” Son and father Arto Annila of the University of Helsinki and Erkki Annila of the Finnish Forest Research Institute conclude,”The most important idea in our study is that there is no distinction between animate […]