“…we persist through time.”
December 26, 2007
December 25, 2007
12/25/07
“… a universe is a collection of objects that are spatially related to each other, and are spatially related to nothing outside that collection (this second clause is needed to prevent my slippers, for example, constituting a universe by themselves).”
December 24, 2007
12/24/07
“‘By convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour, but in reality atoms and void.’” (channeling Democritus)
12/24/07
“Then, it seemed, he was prepared to countenance the existence of space as something independent of the world and the minds within it.”
December 23, 2007
12/23/07
“Ironically, since his name for it has stuck, Hoyle himself did not believe in the Big Bang, and developed an alternative ’steady state’ theory of the universe.”
12/23/07
“Space is something that can make its presence felt in determining the motion of objects, but not by exerting forces.”
December 22, 2007
12/22/07
“Consider the grammatically well-behaved but ultimately unintelligible: ‘No probable tree vetoes a pungent absence.’ What is wrong with this?’”
12/22/07
“As one of Aristotle’s predecessors, Democritus, put it, the world is nothing but atoms in the void.”
12/22/07
“Of course, at every instant, an object is at zero distance from itself at that same instant, but it is not necessarily at zero distance from itself at other instances.”
