Category Archives: Relativity

Remembering The Future – Precognition and The Illusion of Time

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Neuroscience says memory can reconstruct the past, but what if it can also sometimes build the future? If time is like a river, perhaps consciousness is a boat that drifts upstream, carrying fragments of tomorrow disguised as déjà vu. Is it really possible to remember the future?

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Consciousness Beyond The Brain: Inside The Radical Scientific Theory Rewriting Reality

Digital illustration of a glowing human silhouette, sitting in a yoga pose, meditating, woven into a cosmic fabric of golden threads and stars. The radiant figure is embedded in a grid-like structure symbolizing consciousness forming space and time, set against a deep blue star-filled universe. Conceptual art representing consciousness as the foundation of reality in a cosmic setting. Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

What happens when we die? This spiritual question has haunted humanity since the dawn of thought. Yet despite centuries of soul-searching, the mystery of consciousness remains unsolved.

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The Lament O’ The Late Train (Or: Get Yer Money Back, Ya Bassa!)

Cartoon illustration of The NaturPhilosopher, a young woman with long brown hair, singing and playing a banjo at Glasgow Central Station. She wears a white top, blue jeans, and brown boots, performing in front of an Avanti West Coast train. The scene humorously critiques train refund frustrations through Scottish folk music styling. Cartoon: NaturPhilosophie with AI

(To be sung with a twinkle in the eye, a very loud, drawn-out groan… and a long neck banjo)

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Statistically Improbable – The Strange Case of Comet 3I/ATLAS

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A cosmic mytery is unfolding in real-time. 3I/ATLAS is not just a comet. For astrophysicists who have been following its nearing trajectory since 1st July 2025, it is a question mark.

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Mapping the Invisible: How Fast Radio Bursts Illuminate the Universe’s Missing Matter

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The Universe is vast – and strangely, half-empty. For decades, cosmologists have wrestled with the “missing baryon problem”, a puzzling deficit of ordinary matter…

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Why Moving Clocks Do Slow Down

A cartoon drawing featuring two cartoon character clocks running the London Marathon. One of the two overtakes the other one who is almost stationary and says: "I'm slowwer". Moving clocks do slow down. Cartoon: NaturPhilosophie with AI

At some point, we’ve all heard about time dilation – every sci-fi fan among us in particular.  And yet, moving clocks DO slow down.  This is not a fiction fantasy.  It’s a little thing called Special Relativity.

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10,000 Years Later…

A clock is ticking inside a mountain in Western Texas.  It is a monumental clock.  Hundreds of feet tall, its mechanism is designed to tick for 10,000 years.  It’s a real clock.  The first of several millennial clocks being built around the World, to endure for centuries.  Tick…  

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Nine – The Elusive Planet in Our Solar System

A hypothetical Ninth planet has been lurking on the outskirts of our Solar System.  But Planet Nine may not be a planet at all… 

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The Universe Expands Far Faster Than Anticipated…

The Universe is accelerating

For a while now, astrophysicists have known that our Universe is expanding, and accelerating.  And much like the surface of a rubber balloon getting inflated, space is getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger…

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Crimson Moon – A Total Lunar Eclipse

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The Motion of Celestial Spheres

The Universe never sleeps.  Every now and then, the night sky presents us mere mortals with some heavenly spectacle.  A Bonnie Tyler moment.  This Friday, the Moon will enter the catwalk dressed in red to accomplish its otherwise normal nightly travel around the Earth.  For one night only.  A strange and rare celestial sight at dusk – a total lunar eclipse.   

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