What the flux?
Philosophy is perhaps the oldest form of academia and yet, thanks to twenty-first century technology, it is still relevant even today! With the media becoming ever more pervasive, philosophy is now easily accessible for all in our everyday lives. On this blog (powered by blogger) we'll discuss the philosophical undertones in movies, music and novels, as well as offering up comments about articles in the news that have potential implications for philosophy. Think of it as your philosophical commentary of life!
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Bible in a minute
Why read the bible when you can hear it performed in a minute! Check this out…
Labels: theology
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Before the big bang?
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have found hints of a time before the big bang whilst studying the cosmic microwave background (whatever that is). Not only does the study hint at something pre-existing our universe, the researchers also postulate that everything we see was created as a bubble pinched off from a previously existing universe. This conjecture turns out to shed light on the mystery of the arrow of time.
From BBC News:
Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular. Describing the team's work at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in St Louis, Missouri, co-author Professor Sean Carroll explained that 'a universe could form inside this room and we'd never know.'
Well, that's that then. Some interesting implications for the idea of God as creator, perhaps.
Labels: inthebeginning, news, science
At least a 20% chance that we’re living in a simulation
Seriously. Check this out from the New York Times:
Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.
But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.
Well, you can’t argue with numbers.
Labels: news
