The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity

• Hubble's visions of the universe. Here is the final, fully processed photograph that NASA released in 1995. Now, what does the image tell us about what we're seeing?
The Eagle Nebula »

• The fifth discontinuity is the special status we give to the physical. We feel the universe to be a place full of physical material that pushes back and presses against us. Things have weight, size, and duration. That's what the universe is in everyday experience - the real stuff that can be really measured, felt, and sensed. Our world of matter and energy follow a set of laws to such an exacting degree that we can manipulate it to make rockets and computers. Matter's consistent refusal to be bullied outside its own laws adds to the sense of it being "real." Real means physical :
The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity »

• The famous Drake equation estimates the number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way. A new approach asks how many might exist in the entire multiverse :
The Drake Equation for the Multiverse »

Author: Pesc Spad, for AZ10.com ~ 24 May 2010

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