Physics as a spiritual exercise Archive

Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of papier mâché 4*

or My Singapore’s speech   Part four  In this chat, has man a sense in the world in which he lives?,I will talk about cosmic reality, cosmic reality as it is and not how we want it to be. Forgive me if I insist in these two ways of seeing the world: one objective and

Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of papier mâché 3*

or My Singapore’s speech   “The nature of the universe is not difficult to understand and to explain. It’s us, with our ignorance and arrogance, that makes it difficult to understand and to explain. We do even our best, one way or another, to make it hard and incomprehensible”. Orazio Guglielmini   By the way,

Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of papier mâché2 *

or My Singapore’s speech   “For a new vision of the universe and of the meaning of life.” Orazio Guglielmini   Part two The history of the universe has many endings – big crunch, big rip, big freeze, big bounce, etc., – but not a single beginning. No one dares to go beyond Max Planck’s

Welcome to the kingdom of the absurd, * a meditation about life, death and the real nature of the world

  “The universe as it is and not for how we want it to be.” Orace Guglielmini   To begin with, WE DON’T GROW UP TO LIVE, WE GROW UP TO DIE. We are constructed, piece by piece, not for life, but for death. No one escapes this blind verdict. Slaves, prisoners, serfs, from birth

Physics as a spiritual exercise

  Our brains have three main ways of thinking, at least that’s what anthropologists say: instinctive, rational and meditative. The first is fastest, the second is the most reflective and the third the most contemplative. To give examples, we could say that the first, instinctive thought, is natural, we cannot steer it, we do not