This one's more sciencey, but you'll be able to follow it. Albert Einstein theorized that matter and energy are variations of the same thing. It is increasingly evident that energy is the building block of the universe, and matter is only a small variation of energy. This insight has the potential to transform our understanding of everything. But not until we get past our common [...]
“If we find ourselves, in contemplating it, unable to banish the impression that it (the Kosmos) is a realm of final purposes, that it exists for the sake of something, we place intelligence at the heart of it and have a religion.” William James (whom Wikipedia describes as “one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth [...]
Birth, maturity, decline and death, this is the destiny of the universe itself and by extension the destiny of everything in it, including us. Trying to prevent this change from occurring causes much of the suffering in the world. Not long ago almost all scientists believed the universe was in equilibrium. Practically everyone believed the universe had been essentially the same since its beginning and would continue [...]
