Almost every person alive today believes that the universe that they see and sense around them exists outside of themselves as a real physical phenomenon. They believe with utter conviction that the universe began many billions of years before they were born, and will continue to manifest many billions of years after they are dead. […]

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Classical scientists began their search for an understanding of the universe believing that it was possible to study the outer world of objects without affecting what it was they were studying. The findings of quantum mechanics however, have demonstrated that this point of view is false. Not only does the act of observation alter what it […]

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It is safe to say that almost everyone alive on earth today believes in an objective universe. That is to say they believe they live in a world of real physical objects that exist separately from themselves. These objects are believed to be a part of nature, and as such are things over which they have little or […]

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Up until the onset of the 20th century, scientists believed that the universe existed as a sort of Giant Machine, in which objects moved in space according to the known laws of the universe. Everything was considered to be bound by the law of cause and effect. What that meant was that nothing could happen […]

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The quest to understand the true nature of the atom soon left scientists awash in a menagerie of particles that did little to enlighten them. In fact the results of these atom-smashing experiments became more and more difficult to understand, and even more difficult to explain. The dream of finding a simple model to explain the […]

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At the dawn of the 20th century, scientists believed that they stood at last on the threshold of uncovering the secrets of the atom. They were convinced that once they had discovered the fundamental constituents of the atom, they would be able to validate their conviction that the universe existed as an objective reality composed […]

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As we have seen, the classical view expressed by scientists at the end of the nineteenth century was that the universe was an objective reality that operated in accordance with fixed laws that could be expressed in mathematical terms. In short, the commonly accepted view of science was then, as it still is today, that the […]

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As we have seen from earlier instalments, it was Galileo who opened a new vista on the universe. Galileo was the first person to combine empirical knowledge (knowledge derived from experiment and observation) with mathematics, and is thus considered to be the father of modern science. But if the dawn of empirical science was glimpsed in the […]

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As we have seen from the last instalment, it was Galileo who began the initial search for an understanding of the true nature of the world we see around us, by observing the motions of the planets through his telescope. For his efforts, he was victimised by the Catholic Church, forced to recant his ideas in […]

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As we have seen from previous instalments, astounding feats have been performed by young and old alike. They have been happening for thousands of years. They continue to happen to this day. We call these amazing feats “miracles”, because they defy the accepted laws of nature, and because they cannot be explained by our men and women […]

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