Philosophy

Quantum Physics Findings Are Put to Work in Encryption and Philosophy

February 20, 2010

One of quantum physics’ crazier notions is that two particles seem to communicate with each other instantly, even when they’re billions of miles apart. Albert Einstein, arguing that nothing travels faster than light, dismissed this as impossible “spooky action at a distance.”

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Rethinking Process and Change

October 20, 2006

The recent rediscovery of concrete lived time from ‘clock-time’ by process theorists enables us to make important adjustments in our thinking about the true nature of temporality, movement and change. For these process theorists, change is reality itself, and ‘organizations’ are nothing more than ‘temporary arrestations in a sea of flux and transformation. From this perspective it is the phenomenon of organisation that requires analysis and explanation and not change itself. This understanding opens up new avenues of inquiry for Organization Studies as a field of study. Thus the shaping of contemporary modes of thought, codes of behaviour, social mannerisms, dress, gestures, postures, the rules of law, ethical codes, disciplines of knowledge and so on, makes for more appropriate theoretical foci for an expanded realm of Organization Studies — one which offers a deeper understanding of organisation and its consequences for the world of affairs.

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Demons Tearing Your Life Apart

March 11, 2006

I was taken to the hospital on Wed (2/23) morning and do not recall anything from that day. I know that I was hooked up to a respirator and a bunch of other machines. When I first woke up I thought that I was dead and I had gone to hell. Seriously. I didn’t have much energy but with the little bit I did have I sat up in bed and ripped off IV tubes, wires, and anything attached to me. Then I looked at my nurse and said, “I’m dead.” She told me that I wasn’t dead. I collapsed back to the bed and don’t remember anything again for a few hours.

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Does Time Move Backwards?

February 13, 2005

It is possible – in theory – that time may not just move forwards but backwards, too. And if time ebbs and flows like the tides in the sea, it might just be possible to foretell major world events. We would, in effect, be ‘remembering’ things that had taken place in our future. “There’s plenty of evidence that time may run backwards,” says Prof Bierman at the University of Amsterdam.

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Humor So Dark and Twisted

August 2, 2004

Is my sense of humor so dark and twisted that I take a sick pleasure in seeing those that have wronged me in pain? It’s an indulgence I dare not let myself entertain too often otherwise I would find myself alone in the world – surrounded only by ego and darkness. I feel like a child pulling the legs off of an insect only to watch it squirm legless on the ground. It’s darkness overshadows any comedy value it could possibly have. Bergson once said that there is no better judge of character than by what a person finds funny.

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Time Can be Turned Back?

July 29, 2004

Time has been one of the most complicated and least studied scientific issues since ancient times.

Eight years ago, American and British scientists who conducted investigations in Antarctica made a sensational discovery. US physicist Mariann McLein told the researchers noticed some spinning gray fog in the sky over the pole on January 27 which they believed to be just ordinary sandstorm. However, the gray fog did not change the form and did not move in the course of time. The researchers decided to investigate the phenomenon and launched a weather balloon with equipment capable to register the wind speed, the temperature and the air moisture. But the weather balloon soared upwards and immediately disappeared. In a little while, the researchers brought the weather balloon back to the ground with the help of a rope attached to it before. They were extremely surprised to see that a chronometer set in the weather balloon displayed the date of January 27, 1965, the same day 30 years ago. The experiment was repeated several times after the researcher found out the equipment was in good repair. But each time the watch was back it displayed the past time. The phenomenon was called “the time gate” and was reported to the White House.

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Snapshot Taken of the Tiniest Time Interval

April 29, 2004

Physicists in Austria say they that have observed events separated by the shortest time interval ever, and plan to use the technique to study atomic phenomena. A group led by Ferenc Krausz of Vienna University of Technology used pulses of laser light to watch electrons moving around atoms, and were able to distinguish events that took place 100 attoseconds – or 10-16 seconds – apart.

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