May 2008
9 posts
If The Earth Stopped Spinning
When you’re in a car or a train (I’ll use a train as an example because you can walk around on it), you can barely notice that you’re moving unless you’re accelerating or decelerating. This is because you have no other speed to compare your current speed to. If you’re going 50MPH and then speed up to 60MPH, you feel the difference. But once you’re going 60MPH,...
Looking Back On Life
We’ve all looked back at some point in our lives and realized we’ve made a bad decision. It doesn’t matter how good of an idea something seemed at the time, in retrospect, we know it was a pretty stupid idea. The old saying is “hindsight is 20/20”, and the analogy couldn’t be more true.
The question is: How do we see things so clearly looking back? Why...
Homosexuality and Evolution
Evolution states that all living things evolve on the basis of survival. The ability to reproduce is really the only requirement for a species to survive. There is a paradox here though: how can you explain homosexuality through evolution?
It really seems to go against everything evolution tells us. Since homosexuals don’t reproduce, their traits never get passed on. So how can that be if...
What Death Feels Like
Sometimes my mind will drift into the idea of death. It’s a scary thought, because it’s hard to imagine not existing anymore. What would that feel like? The answer is: you will never know that you’re dead.
When you lay in bed at night, you close your eyes and try to fall asleep. You never actually feel yourself fall asleep though. In fact, you don’t even realize that you...
Faith is Polite
Most people throughout history have had a belief in some sort of god. This is true throughout most time periods and most cultures. So how is it that so many people from so many places could have such similar beliefs? I think it’s a matter of having manners.
When someone gives us something, or does something nice for us, it’s natural to say “thank you”. But who can you...
Comparing Age and Time
Do you ever get the feeling that time seems to just keep passing quicker and quicker? Like the days and weeks are gone before we know it? When I was 4, turning 5 seemed like it would never come. Birthdays were rare occasions when we were young, but now it feels like they happen too often.
So why is this? Here’s my solution:
We measure time on clocks and calendars, so there’s no...
We're All Senseless
It’s interesting to think about how blind we are. Light is a huge spectrum, and we can only see a tiny fraction of it that we call “visible light”. Could you imagine if our eyes could detect the full spectrum? And who knows what else we’re not seeing.
Remember, our eyes can only detect a small fraction of light. Our ears detect a small fraction of sound. There could be...
Time Travel and Aliens
There’s always been a lot of question about if time travel is possible or not. For me, the one problem that stands out is the question of why we haven’t been visited by people from another time. My theory on it is this:
Time travel is possible, but before a society can get close to figuring out how to do it, they end up destroying themselves. Since we would need strong technology to...