RUSSELL CORNHILL

Space, Time & Everything 1 When we talk of spatial dimensions, we often talk of them as if they are separate concepts in their own right. Draw a line. Yep, that’s one dimension. Now draw a square. Yeah, that’s two dimensions. Build a cube from the paper. Wow, that’s three dimensions. Then people start talking about the possibility of a fourth dimension, perhaps even more. Yet, by looking at them as separate concepts, I believe we are looking at them the wrong way. Consider on

The Imagination The Thinking Process 4 What is imagination? Wikipedia defines it as the mental capacity to form images, sensations or concepts that are not present to the senses, acting as the foundation for creativity, problem solving and empathy. Other definitions are very similar – a glorious form of speculative thought, a form of cognitive skill, etc. That probably sums up the concept as we think of it, but what if it’s more than that? When we think about imagination, we

What are the major problems in the world today? How’s this for a list? They’re not in any particular order. · Israel – No, I don’t mean the Jewish people or Judaism the religion. · America – And I don’t just mean Trump. · The ‘natural’ environment, or rather, our effect on it. · The Russia/Ukraine war – In this case, you could possibly just put ‘Putin’. · The media, including the internet. · Bigotry in all its forms. ·

Space, Time and Stuff 2. Stephen Hawkings supposedly said that soon we will know the answer to everything, or something like that. I have the utmost respect for Stephen as one of our greatest ever scientists, but my immediate response on hearing, or seeing, those words was to ask, ‘How can we ever know the answer to everything before we know what everything is?’ Now, there are lots of interpretations of the meaning of ‘everything’ simply depending on what we’re talking about—

Space, Time and Stuff 1. I’ve recently heard a news broadcaster use the phrase ‘to infinity and beyond’. At first, I wondered if we were...