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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Science and Philosophy

Exciting new theory in Physics addresses a fundamental puzzle:
“Despite its sway over the motion of stars and galaxies, the force of gravity is hundreds of millions of trillions of trillions of times weaker than magnetism and the other microscopic forces of nature. This disparity shows up in physics equations as a similarly absurd difference between the mass of the Higgs boson, a particle discovered in 2012 that controls the masses and forces associated with the other known particles, and the expected mass range of as-yet-undiscovered gravitational states of matter.”

Meditation and Neuroscience

Stoicism and the Fear of Death

Upon reading the above articles, one is reminded of ‘Heaven‘– the famous Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) poem: http://www.bartleby.com/232/504.html
“FISH (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat’ry noon)
Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
This life cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were!”