Every time someone snaps a selfie, records a sunset or scans a QR code, they are unknowingly using technology built on a scientific idea once dismissed as strange and almost unbelievable. More than a century ago, Albert Einstein proposed that light behaves not just as a wave, but also as tiny packets of energy capable […]
No one has seen the eyes since, and their location remains unknown, undocumented, and unverified/Image: Youtube Albert Einstein took deliberate steps to control what would happen to his body after death. He asked that it be cremated, and that his ashes be scattered in secret, to avoid shrines, relics or spectacle. He was explicit about […]
In The Tao of Physics, perhaps the finest popular novel on parallels between modern physics and “Eastern mysticism”, author Michiko Kaku sums up the dichotomy by stating: “Socrates in Greece made the famous statement ‘I know that I know nothing,’ and Lao Tzu in China said, ‘Not knowing that one knows is best.’” The two […]
