New Model of the Universe Says Past
Crystallizes out of the Future
What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future?
According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity
and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.
Future Humans Four Ways We May, or
May Not, Evolve. Will our descendants hurtle through space
as relatively unchanged as the humans on the starship Enterprise?
Will they be muscle-bound cyborgs? Or will they chose to digitize
their consciousnesses—becoming electronic immortals?
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We
May Be Born With an Urge to Help
What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians.
Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in
need of considerable improvement, think many parents.But biologists
are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of humankind.
What a machine!
After becoming the world’s highest energy particle accelerator,
the LHC is now making progress in commissioning stable beams
and providing more collisions at the four points for several
hours at a time. For the first time, beams have circulated with
more than one bunch of protons, thus increasing the intensity.
An infinite eternal unchanging nothing
that has always existed...
Where did the universe come from? The theory appears to match
observations, and the theoretical physics appear to hold back
through time to within a tiny fraction of a second after the
creation of the Big Bang. Beyond that the theory cannot explain
how the Big Bang singularity came into existence.
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States of Consciousness
Ralph Metzner relates his distillation of almost five decades
of research, psychotherapy, shamanic and yogic practices, as well
as teaching experience, on the role of changing states of consciousness
in psychological health and spiritual growth. Each state of consciousness
that we experience has its own distinctly different mind-space
and time-stream. We need to learn how to use the expansive, positive
states for spiritual growth and creative expression and navigate
out of the contractive, unhealthy states of fear and rage, addictions
and compulsions, into healthier, life-affirming states. Mind Space
and Time Stream Understanding and Navigating Your States of Consciousness
By Ralph Metzner
How Galaxies Form: New Research Resolves
Conflict in Theory
For more than two decades, the cold dark matter theory has been
used by cosmologists to explain how the smooth universe born in
the big bang more than 13 billion years ago evolved into the filamentary,
galaxy-rich cosmic web that we see today. |
