mindfulness

Prospero's speech at the end of The Tempest could be Shakespeare's own view. It is said that he was a melancholy man. At least he was influenced by of the very violent time he was born into He wrote The Tempest at his hometown He had returned to Stratford-upon-Avon for the last years of his life. And Prospero is said to be his Alter Ego. Carlo  Rovelli ends another speech in England, but nearer in time, with Prosperos's words. Rovelli  reveals, in this iaitv speech, that time is not a straight arrow to the future, instead we are living, not in dream, but it in the web of spacetime. The structure of reality is like a fabric that makes waves and bends. Here's Rovelli at iaitv And when you can hear Shakespeare's words at YouTube  in a new video, it's a kind of bending of time, isn't it? Time goes a little bit slower at the surface of the Earth than one meter above it, because  spacetime is bending toward our planet. As you can see Rovelli wou

The EPR paradox was a thought experiment by Einstein and two other scientist. They wanted to proof that the Copenhagen interpretation of quanta mechanics was wrong. There can be no chance involved in the normal world and not even in the really small world of atoms and photons. The paradox showed that the outcome of the quanta mechanics was that two atoms or photons that are entangled and then separated could react to each other with no time in between in the quantum world according to the thought experiment - and that would be impossible, said Einstein. Some information must sent between the particles - and that takes time... But experiment done later have shown that it is so. If you measure  one atom/photon the other will react immediately to the measurement. John Wheelers solution to the paradox was that the human thought creates reality. If we decide that a book is something to read it will be like that. If someone decides to build a house of books, they become "brick

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