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Our Cosmic System

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

Science fiction movies portray the discovery of extra-terrestrial life often as a slimy goo, a microscopic bacteria in an asteroid. Either that or an advanced interstellar civilization bent upon conquest. Believing there are aliens out there is a release, an … Continue reading →

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Review of “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe”

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

I have been struggling, as a ‘layperson’ for a while now trying to wrap my head around how the universe functions. And, beyond that, if there is some great master design that we just can’t see or if we are … Continue reading →

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When We Cease To Understand the World

Posted on January 8, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

This last year two scientists working on Quantum Mechanics won the Nobel Prize. Quantum Mechanics was invented by Heisenberg as part of his “uncertainty principle”. It is a bizarre field. How is it possible that, at the quantum level, the … Continue reading →

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Time’s Arrow

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

I’ve always been concerned with time. How it appears to tick away, methodical and unstoppable. How it has a directionality that is irreversible – “Time’s Arrow”, as Arthur Eddington called it in 1927. “This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, … Continue reading →

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