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People talk about space as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.  But is it? When one looks into the night sky, one is aware of a multitude of points of light.  Because were are able to separate these points of light into separate objects, we say there are spaces between them.  [...]

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Genesis 2

What is it that drives us to seek answers to ultimate questions?  If ever we were to discover the answer to a question such as, What is the origin of life?  -  what difference would it make to our lives?  In our everyday lives of work and love, fishing and gardening, what would we be [...]

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How a simple experiment with time and place can lead to a big idea.

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It is not fashionable nowadays to speak of the Zeitgeist, that something that affects first the collective unconscious and then the collective conscious.  But, nevertheless, it does happen that periods occur when a particular idea seems to be infectious ; when the idea emerges from several people who seem to have no contact with each [...]

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Conventions bring us comfort, if only because they lend structure to the world we live in.  They provide us with points of reference with which to compare one event with another.  And it is these points of reference which make the ever-changing world relatively stable. One of our major conventions concerns the physical world.  When, [...]

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