Although it has not yet been constructed in any major scientific center, a time machine is theoretically possible and for centuries it has sparked the imagination of writers and the thought experiments of scientists…
The idea of time travel is almost as old as human civilization. One of the earliest evidences is recorded in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. King Reviata travels to another world to face the god Brahma. But when he returned, he realized that centuries had passed on Earth in the meantime.
One of the more famous time machines in science fiction was designed in 1895 by H. Dž. Wells in the novel The Time Machine, which was first published in sequels in Palmal magazine. Wells was also the creator of the term “time machine”, and his work experienced a large number of reissues and film adaptations, and in the following decades, as well as today, he inspired numerous other authors and creators of some new time machines.
However, except in the mind, there was no attempt to build time machines. However, it is still not impossible, at least in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. According to her, if a fast spaceship were to move at a relativistic speed close to the speed of light of 300,000 km/s, more time would pass on Earth than on the spaceship. That phenomenon, predicted by the relativistic equations, is called time dilation and stems from the fact that every reference system in Einstein’s physics has its own time.
This idea encouraged new thought experiments, the more famous of which are the paradox of the time tourist, the paradox of the twins, the paradox of the grandfather…
Here’s an example: suppose that time travel is indeed possible. A man decided to travel back in time, find and kill his own grandfather before he met his grandmother. This would mean that one parent of the time traveler was never conceived. However, we can now conclude that man from the beginning of history could not even travel through time and look for his grandfather, because he could not even be born since one of his parents did not exist.
But if he didn’t time travel for murder, his grandfather is still alive which means our great traveler will still be born, then time travel and kill his grandfather. The conclusion that arises is that, instead of doubting the possibility of the birth of the traveler, the possibility of time travel is questioned. This “paradox of the grandfather” was first discussed by the French writer René Berjave in his book The Careless Traveler from 1943.
Genius minds are known for their eccentricity, but there are also many who went a step further with their craziness. Below are the 13 most bizarre habits by famous scientists, composers and writers. Various myths are associated with a large number of famous people from history, which no one is sure if they are really true.
In his book “Daily Rituals”, writer Mason Coury listed some musicians, artists and scientists whose bizarre routines made them as famous as their achievements.
1- The American composer George Gershwin was a workaholic, and he created his works while sitting at the piano in his pajamas and bathrobe. His brother Ira claims that Georges was never relaxed and always had something to do.
2- One of the greatest geniuses ever, Albert Einstein, lived in seclusion. He always had long hair because he did not like to visit the barber, and he considered socks unnecessary, so he never wore them.
3- Poet Edith Sitwell used to start the day by lying in a coffin because it supposedly inspired her to write her somewhat morbid lyrics. She loved to sleep and declared that every woman should spend one day a week in bed.
4- A well-established daily routine helped Charles Dickens write 15 great novels. His desk was always elaborately arranged: there was always a small vase of fresh flowers on it, a large knife for opening a letter, a gilded leaf brooch with a rabbit sitting on it, and two bronze figurines of frogs brandishing swords in a duel.
5- One of the most popular writers of crime novels, Agatha Christie, didn’t have a pen at all, she just created her works wherever she went.
The marble coffee table in the bedroom was a good place to write, as well as the kitchen table between meals.
said Christy.
6- The author of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, Truman Capote, wrote in bed with coffee and cigarettes. But only three cigarettes could be in the ashtrays at a time, and the rest was put away in his pocket. He compulsively added various numbers in his head and did not dial the phone number or the hotel room if he considered those numbers unlucky.
7- The writer Jane Austen did not like anyone but her immediate family to see her while she was writing. She liked the door to her room to creak so she could hear if someone came in, and she wrote on small pieces of paper so she could quickly hide them from prying eyes.
8- The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, slept only three hours a day and claimed that sometimes he had so many ideas in his head that absolutely nothing could be shaken from his thoughts.
9- The poet WH Auden refused to work in the evenings.
10- Only world Hitlers work at night, no honest artist – he said. He also gets his mental energy from amphetamines.
11- The “father of American literature” Mark Twain had a big problem with insomnia, and when he managed to fall asleep it was usually on the bathroom floor.
12- F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of “The Great Gatsby”, loved alcoholic beverages. The problem is that he lived during the prohibition era, so his favorite drink was gin because it worked fast and it was hard to detect that he was drunk. That love for alcohol took him to his grave too early, already at the age of 45.
13- The writer Victor Hugo ate two raw eggs every morning and bathed in ice water. He also visited the barber every day.
“But at the same time, anyone who is serious about science remains convinced that some kind of spirit manifests itself in the laws of the universe and that it is far superior to man.” In this way, doing science leads to religious motivations of a special kind, which are certainly quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.”
Albert Einstein
Collision and meeting of truth and beauty
In his house in the suburbs of Berlin, the great scientist Albert Einstein hosted Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian philosopher and poet, one July day in 1930. These two colossuses of the human spiritual struggle started one of the most intellectually stimulating discussions of the 20th century and beyond, mainly exploring the age-old friction between religious and scientific thought, but also the point of their meeting. The growing secularity of the Western world and the millennial tradition of India at one table, in a rare state of osmosis and synthesis.
This clip of that historic conversation and masterful meditation on the concepts of consciousness, beauty and truth is just a part of the published book about this meeting of giants, “Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore”.
EINSTEIN: Do you believe in the divine as something isolated from the world?
TAGORE: It is not isolated. The infinite personality of Man understands the Universe. There can be nothing that cannot be subsumed under the human personality, and this is proof that the Truth of the Universe is also the human Truth. I took scientific facts to explain it – matter is made up of protons and electrons, with gaps between them; but matter seems solid. Similarly, humanity consists of individuals who, however, have their own interconnections of human relationships that give the human world a living unity. The entire universe is connected to us in a similar way, it is the human universe. I pursued this thought through art, literature and the religious consciousness of man.
EINSTEIN: There are two different conceptions of the nature of the universe: 1. The world as a unity dependent on humanity. 2. The world as a reality independent of the human factor. TAGORE: When our universe is in harmony with Man, the eternal, we know it as Truth, we feel it as beauty. EINSTEIN: It is a purely human conception of the Universe. TAGORE: There can be no other conception. This world is the world of men – the scientific view of it is the view of the scientific man. There is some standard of reason and enjoyment which bestows upon him the Truth, the standard of the Eternal Man whose experiences are permeated through our experiences. EINSTEIN: It is the realization of the human entity. TAGORE: Yes, one eternal entity. We must realize it through our emotions and activities. We have realized the Supreme Man who has no individual limitations through our own limitations. Science deals with what is not limited to individuals; it is an impersonal human world Truth. Religion understands these truths and connects them to our deeper needs; our individual awareness of Truth takes on universal significance. Religion applies values to the Truth, and we know this Truth well through our harmony with it. EINSTEIN: Truth, then, or Beauty is not independent of Man? TAGORE: No. EINSTEIN: If there were no more human beings, Apollo Belvedere would no longer be beautiful. TAGORE: No. EINSTEIN: I agree with this conception in the case of Beauty, but not in the case of Truth. TAGORE: Why not? Truth is realized through man. EINSTEIN: I cannot prove that my conception is correct, but it is my religion. TAGORE: Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony existing in the Universal Being; The truth is in the perfect understanding of the Universal Mind. We as individuals approach it through our own mistakes and misconceptions, through our accumulated experiences, through our enlightened consciousness – how else could we know the Truth? EINSTEIN: I cannot scientifically prove that Truth must be conceived as a Truth that is validly independent of humanity; but I firmly believe in it. I believe, for example, that the Pythagorean theorem in geometry says something that is approximately true, independent of the existence of man. In any case, if there is a reality independent of man, there is also a Truth that is relative to this reality; and in the same way the negation of the first causes the negation of the existence of the second. TAGORE: Truth, which is one with the Universal Being, must be essentially human – otherwise, everything that we individuals perceive as true could never be called truth – at least not the Truth that is called scientific and can only be reached through logical processes, or in other words, the organ of thought that is human. According to Indian philosophy, there is Brahman, the absolute Truth, which cannot be created by the isolation of the individual mind or described in words, but can be understood by the complete merging of the individual with its infinity. But such a Truth cannot belong to science. The nature of the Truth we are discussing is appearance – that is, what appears to the human mind as true and therefore human, may be called maya or illusion.
EINSTEIN: So, according to your conception, which may be purely Hindu, it is not an illusion of an individual, but of humanity as a whole. TAGORE: Species also belongs to unity, to humanity. Therefore, the whole human mind understands the Truth; the Indian or European mind arrives at the same understanding. EINSTEIN: The word “species” in the German language is used for all human beings, in fact, even monkeys and frogs could belong to it. TAGORE: In science we move through the discipline of eliminating the personal limitations of our individual minds and thus arrive at that understanding of the Truth which is in the mind of Universal Man. EINSTEIN: The problem begins with the question of whether Truth is independent of our consciousness. TAGORE: What we call truth lies in the rational harmony between the subjective and objective aspects of reality, both of which belong to the super-personal man. EINSTEIN: Even in our daily lives we are forced to ascribe a reality independent of man to the objects we use. We do this in order to connect the experiences of our senses in a reasonable and comprehensible way. For example, if no one is in this house, and yet this table remains where it is. TAGORE: Yes, it remains outside the individual mind, but not the universal mind. What I perceive can be perceived by the same kind of consciousness that I possess. EINSTEIN: If no one were in the house, the table would still exist – but, from your point of view, it is illegitimate – because we cannot explain what it means for the table to be where it is, independently of us. Our natural point of view, regarding the existence of truth beyond humanity cannot be explained or proven, but it is a belief that no one can lack – not even primitive beings. We attribute superhuman objectivity to Truth; it is necessary for our existence, that truth which is independent of our existence and our experience and our mind – although we cannot say what it means. TAGORE: Science has proven that a table, as a solid object, is an apparent object and that therefore what the human mind perceives as a table would not exist without that mind. At the same time, it must be recognized that the fact that ultimate physical reality is nothing but a multitude of separate rotating centers of electrical force also belongs to the human mind. In understanding the Truth, there is an eternal conflict between the universal human mind and the same mind threatened in the individual. The eternal process of reconciliation is carried out in our science, philosophy, ethics. In any case, if there were a Truth absolutely unrelated to humanity, then it is completely non-existent for us. It is not difficult to imagine a mind for which sequences of things occur not in space but only in time, like sequences of notes in music. for such a mind, the conception of reality is akin to musical reality in which Pythagorean geometry can have no meaning. There is a reality of paper that is infinitely different from the reality of literature. To a kind of mind such as the mind of a paper-eating butterfly, literature is completely non-existent, but to the human mind literature has a greater value of Truth than paper itself. Similarly, if there were a Truth that had no sensory or rational relation to the human mind, it would forever remain nothing as long as we remain human beings. EINSTEIN: Then I am more religious than you! TAGORE: My religion is the reconciliation of the super-personal man, the universal human spirit, in my individual being.
During the entire history of the world, death occupied many scientists who were looking for a solution to prevent it. We present to you one scientist from the present and one from the past who have a positive attitude towards the given problem.
The first one we are talking about is Nikola Tesla, who by all accounts stood out from other scientists because his attitude towards spirituality had its own specificities, but also a peculiarity when he approached metaphysics. He was of the view that the mental component associated with the spirituality of the human being enables progress. This is what set him apart from Einstein who denied the mental component. Studying the mechanisms of his psychic life, Tesla discovered that a series of images from the “other reality” are always related to events in the “real reality” and that there is a fairly regular correlation.
He managed to come to the realization that his every thought was caused by some external impression.
Tesla tells us:
“Not only thoughts, but also actions are caused in the same way. After some time, it was perfectly obvious to me that I was only an automaton endowed with the ability to move, responding to the stimuli of the sensitive organs and thoughts and acting accordingly. The practical result of this knowledge was, many years later, the discovery of teleautomatic control, the laws of which I finally became aware, although I had previously carried them within me in the form of vague and unfinished ideas.”
Tesla continues and says that “death does not exist, and with this knowledge, the fear of it also disappears. And remember: not a single human that existed died. They turned into light and as such continue to exist. The secret is that those light particles return to their original state. Returning to one of the previous energies. Christ and others knew that secret. I was searching for how to preserve human energy. It is one of the forms of light. In the Soul, it is sometimes equal to the supreme light of heaven . I didn’t search for it for myself, but for the good of everyone. I believe that my discovery will make people’s lives easier and more bearable and direct them to spirituality and morality.“
Today, there are scientists who share a sketchy opinion with Tesla, such as Robert Lanza, an assistant professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. One of the principles of quantum physics is that certain events cannot be overlooked with one hundred percent certainty. On the contrary, there are a number of possible events, each of which has a different probability of occurrence. According to the so-called “many-worlds” interpretation, each of these events actually represents one universe, that is, a world. Such a point of view is also supported by the new scientific theory of biocentrism, introduced by Lanza himself, according to which there is an infinite number of parallel worlds. Everything that could ever happen takes place in one of those worlds. For example, if we had four possible choices when choosing a college, although we think we chose only one, all four scenarios actually took place, but each in one of the parallel worlds.
All these worlds exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in them, but death does not exist in any of these scenarios. Lanza concludes that although our bodies are doomed to self-destruction, that subjective feeling of living “who am I?” it’s just 20 watts of energy emanating from the brain. Given that one of the most certain scientific laws is that energy is never lost, it cannot be destroyed or created, it means that the energy of the feeling of living does not leave with death either “Everything we see and experience right now is actually a whirlwind of information produced in our brain, and time and space are just the means by which we unite all that information within the same framework,” Lanza points out. It means that we actually live in a timeless and spaceless world, and in such a world death does not exist.
Even Albert Einstein admitted that his old friend “departed this strange world a little before me. It doesn’t mean anything. People like us… realize that the difference between past, present and future is actually just a stubbornly persistent illusion”.
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