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POPSSpace and Time are forms of animal sense perception
The final option is biocentrism, which holds that the universe is created by life and not the other way around. According to biocentrism, time does not exist independently of the life that notices it. Everything we perceive is actively and repeatedly being reconstructed inside our heads in an organized whirl of information. Time in this sense can be defined as the summation of spatial states occurring inside the mind. So what is real? If the next mental image is different from the last, then it is different, period. We can award that change with the word time, but that does not mean there is an actual invisible matrix in which changes occur. That is just our own way of making sense of things. We watch our loved ones age and die and assume that an external entity called time is responsible for the crime. There is a peculiar intangibility to space, as well. Most of us still think like Newton, regarding space as sort of a vast container that has no walls. But our notion of space is fa
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POPSPrivacy may be dead; what the Web knows about you A lot of the pressure that rises in this time is related to the privacy concept. The entanglement of human life and the Web is creating an interesting space in which human's identity is being decoded to bits of information, that become part of the virtual space which is the free flow of the web. As such the question of possession arises. Who owns my (a metaphor of course ;-) ) identity? or in different words, do my identity belong to me?
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POPSDark flow, when the universe as you know is closing on you "If confirmed, this will be an exciting way of probing the ultimate structure of the universe and perhaps even the multiverse," Kashlinsky says. "But you have to check and recheck." "If this thing is confirmed and it is real, it will be incredibly important," says Aguirre, "on the same order of discovery as the realisation that those little smudges on the sky are other galaxies. The most important thing it would tell us is that the standard picture is broken in some way. And the most exciting thing it could tell us is that there are other universes." If it does, space and time will open up to reveal a reality that is so much bigger than we know. When that happens, those claustrophobia-stricken cosmologists will finally be able to breathe easy." What i find as most interesting is the passion to go beyond the obvious barriers. As i read once in a book series i love, the golden age, even in the size of the universe, a jail is still a jail...
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POPSIs Space Travel the Next Step in Human Evolution? "Maybe it’s much ado about nothing, or maybe it’s something more. Perhaps as space travel becomes more mainstream we’ll have the opportunity to understand more about ourselves, the cosmos, and our relationship to rest of the universe."
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POPSEarth, the final frontier "It's not a very good photo as photos go, but it's a special one. It was the first statement of our planet Earth and it was particularly impressive because it's contrasted against this startling horizon." In the following weeks it is estimated that 2 billion people - more than half the humans alive at the time - watched the blurred black and grey TV film of the moon and listened to crackling voices speaking to them" It is a powerful image, of humanity... its ambition; desire and unknown possibilities. combined with the sense of aloness in the vastness of space.
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