The Search for Truth: Life changing answers to mankinds toughest questions

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Follow Us Twitter Facebook. Switch to Mobile Site Night mode Sites: Please log in to comment. Why is it that all of our rules, theories, maxims, and models all have an exception? On the surface this seems like a rather trite question, and if you ask the average person on the street, most will simply smile, shrug, and move on. It depends on what type of measurement scale you are using. There are four types of measurement scales — nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.

So why do exceptions matter? Yes, we can count on such things as buildings existing from one day to the next, the earth traveling around the sun in the same orbit, gravity holding us down, and the speed of light remaining reasonably constant. In fact, most of the world around has been created around natural forces that can be predicted with high degrees of probability. For this reason, there is no such thing as absolute certainty, except our certainty that nothing is certain… maybe. In many scientific circles, the only truths are those that can be explained with logic and reason.

Religious people use a different metric, but they too have a way of calibrating their truths with logic and reason. So why are logic and reason such miserable tools for explaining the world around us? Everything perfect has a touch of that one secret ingredient known as chaos. Is order more perfect than chaos? Or is chaos just a higher form of order?

If we were able to travel to the outer edges of the universe, what would we find? Perhaps we would run smack dab into another universe, but how would we know? Would the other universe somehow come in a different color, operate with a different set of rules, or smell slightly like almonds? How would we know? Welcome to Universe B where proximity is not an issue!

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Before there was something, there was nothing. And out of nothing, how did we get something? What existed before the big bang, before creation, and before God? Time is the sound of a metronome ticking in our heads, the beat of our heart, the blinking lids on our eyes, the mental waves in our brains, and all the circadian cycles that govern our lives.

Each of us thinks about time differently.

To some it is a tool to be leveraged, to others a setting sun, a theory of physics, a philosophy to be debated, the hands of a clock, a lengthening of a shadow, or the grains of sand dropping in an hourglass. And yet every truth we have about the existence of time comes with a counterbalancing exception to the rule. What Einstein may have been alluding to is the existence of other dimensions outside of those governed by time. We are born as a baby, struggle our entire life with everything from finding food to eat, homes to live in, educating ourselves to gain more understanding, staying healthy, making friends and relationships, raising a family, earning a living, and then we die.

If we have more accomplishments in life, earn more money, have more friends, raise a bigger family, and somehow do everything better than anyone else, we will still eventually die. Every past civilization, with their manmade structures, machines, systems, and cultures, has eventually succumbed to Mother Nature. Plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi methodically remove every trace of what we leave behind.

Does the fact that we can ask questions like these, ponder the unponderable, think the unthinkable, and accomplish things that no other species can accomplish, somehow give us a higher purpose? Are humans destined to become the guardians, caretakers, and eventually the masters of the universe? If so, then we have to ask….

Humans are the bull in every china closet, the off-center bubble on every level, the mystery behind every hidden agenda, and the blunt instrument whenever a precision tool is called for. We are both our greatest heroes and our most feared enemies.

We are praised for our accomplishments and castigated for our failures. Of all species on planet earth, humans are the least predictable, most destructive, require the longest nurturing period, and consume the most food. At the same time, we are also the most curious, most aware, most innovative, and the most likely to waste countless hours playing video games.

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We live in a world driven by prerequisites. A machinist needs to understand a single-point lathe operation before he or she can advance to multi-axial milling. Engineers need to understand the concepts of mechanical stress and strain before they start bending a cantilever beam. Metallurgists need to understand thermodynamics before they attempt phase transformations in solids. Physicists need to understand quantum mechanics before they can understand a standard model for particle physics. Mathematicians need to understand nonlinear differential equations before they can understand strange attractors.

I like to think of the future as a force so massive that the entire universe is being pulled forward in time simultaneously. We have no choice in this matter.