My blogging, thus far, has focused on the spiritual aspects of human life on our watery little world - but I also have a keen amateur interest in the sciences, especially quantum physics (at least so far as I can grasp the theories!) and astronomy. In a very real sense, for me, spiritual perspectives and scientific theory go hand-in-hand. One only really gets into trouble when encountering advocates for either outlook who are limited by a notion that theirs - alone - is an exclusively "correct" interpretation of the cosmos.
But when - as I've been doing quite a lot of late - I gaze up in rapt wonder at a clear-night's sky, I want not only to try to understand things like the orbital mechanics involved, and the theoretical models about how all that stuff got to be spinning and whirling, out there, in the first place - I also want to to try to understand the "who-or-what" which may be behind the imagining of all the grandeur I witness. And what my understanding of All That Is can do, in terms of better living my own life.
So, today, while surfing the InterWebs, I came across a couple of outstanding articles - meaning that they've helped me, in an enjoyable way, to continue trying to wrap my mind around the subjects. The first is a New York Times piece, from the "SundayReview" section of this week's paper:
The Reality of Quantum Weirdness, by Edward Frenke, in which he writes, ". . . Is there a true story, or is our belief in a definite, objective, observer-independent reality an illusion? This quote gives you, gentle reader, a good idea of his theme. But the reference to "story" also reflects the reading I was doing earlier in the day, today, in an e-book I bought recently, from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Gangaji, called "Freedom & Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe". Again, in the morning I read how she wrote: "The first challenge is to recognize that you are telling (yourself) a story. . . Then (what) we have called Self or Truth or God is revealed . . .", and in the afternoon, I found Edward Franke's article.
The other one I wanted to share a link to was from Universetoday, and their article titled, "How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?", by Vanessa Janek. Her clear and easy writing style helped me, among other things, to understand the difference between the theories of General Relativity and Special Relativity better than ever before. And! I encountered some (for me) novel information about what we can - and can't - "see" in the cosmos around us - and Why that seems so!
But when - as I've been doing quite a lot of late - I gaze up in rapt wonder at a clear-night's sky, I want not only to try to understand things like the orbital mechanics involved, and the theoretical models about how all that stuff got to be spinning and whirling, out there, in the first place - I also want to to try to understand the "who-or-what" which may be behind the imagining of all the grandeur I witness. And what my understanding of All That Is can do, in terms of better living my own life.
So, today, while surfing the InterWebs, I came across a couple of outstanding articles - meaning that they've helped me, in an enjoyable way, to continue trying to wrap my mind around the subjects. The first is a New York Times piece, from the "SundayReview" section of this week's paper:
The Reality of Quantum Weirdness, by Edward Frenke, in which he writes, ". . . Is there a true story, or is our belief in a definite, objective, observer-independent reality an illusion? This quote gives you, gentle reader, a good idea of his theme. But the reference to "story" also reflects the reading I was doing earlier in the day, today, in an e-book I bought recently, from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Gangaji, called "Freedom & Resolve: Finding Your True Home in the Universe". Again, in the morning I read how she wrote: "The first challenge is to recognize that you are telling (yourself) a story. . . Then (what) we have called Self or Truth or God is revealed . . .", and in the afternoon, I found Edward Franke's article.
The other one I wanted to share a link to was from Universetoday, and their article titled, "How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?", by Vanessa Janek. Her clear and easy writing style helped me, among other things, to understand the difference between the theories of General Relativity and Special Relativity better than ever before. And! I encountered some (for me) novel information about what we can - and can't - "see" in the cosmos around us - and Why that seems so!
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