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Einstein made another important prediction about gravity: It was a form of energy, so, like electromagnetism or sound, it ought to generate waves.PROVED 2015
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UMWELT
David Eagleman is involved in research that explores the possibilities of
expanding our human umwelt to include information we don’t currently
have access to through our five senses.
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From the point of view of gravity, the early universe was too smooth. It
needed to be clumped up. This tendency of gravity to rearrange the universe
explains why we can think of the early universe as having low entropy, a
sort of tidiness that entropy could mess up over the next few billion years.
Once it got going, gravity took just a few hundred million years to turn the
smooth particle mist of the early universe into a messier and lumpier space
full of stars and galaxies
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Gravity had kick-started the transformation of matter into stars by fusing
protons despite the barrier created by their positive charges. This is a
pattern we will see over and over again. It’s a bit like the cup of coffee that
helps you get going in the morning. Chemists refer to this initial shot of
energy as activation energy; it’s the energy of a lit match that starts a
conflagration. One kind of energy changes something so as to release other
flows of free energy that are much greater than the activation energy. In the
story of star formation, gravity provided the activation energy for fusion
and star formation and for all that followed.
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panpsychism, coined by the Italian philosopher Francesco
Patrizi in the sixteenth century, is derived from the Greek pan (“all”) and
psyche (“mind” or “spirit”).
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