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FIXED ASSUMPTIONS. "Accepted constants such as the speed of light need to be re-examined." (Carver Mead). https://lnkd.in/e3tKuJa View in LinkedIn

THE BLIND MAN. "The very concepts and ways of thinking that have led to progress in the past are often the source of blind spots that prevent progress into the future." (Carver Mead). https://lnkd.in/e-rWkXA View in LinkedIn

BINDING SILENCE. "The most insidious property of the world view at any point in time is that it involves assumptions that are not stated." (Carver Mead). https://lnkd.in/e-rWkXA View in LinkedIn

THE HEART OF MATTER. "The quantum world is a world of waves not particles. If you take a pure quantum system -- the electrons in a superconducting magnet, or the atoms in a laser -- they are all in phase with one another, and they demonstrate the wave nature of matter on a large scale. Then you can see quite visibly what matter is down at its heart." (Carver Mead). https://lnkd.in/eCP4RPW View in LinkedIn

WORD THICKET. "We are all prisoners of the language we have created to develop our understanding to its present state." (Carver Mead). https://lnkd.in/e-rWkXA View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM MECHANICS. "It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets. Somewhere between molecules and pears lies a boundary where the strangeness of quantum behavior ends and the familiarity of classical physics begins." Or, everything is waves. https://lnkd.in/eh_xkKg View in LinkedIn

THE MINOR FRACTION. "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." (Albert Einstein). https://lnkd.in/e8mgukh View in LinkedIn

A UNIVERSE OF TEN DIMENSIONS. "The theoretical framework of Superstring Theory posits that the universe exists in ten different dimensions. These different aspects are what govern the universe, the fundamental forces of nature, and all the elementary particles contained within." https://lnkd.in/e8Fizcn View in LinkedIn

WHILE TECHNOLOGY RACES, reaches new levels, opens unexpected new doors, we are still the blind driver of a brakeless car plunging downhill, not knowing where we are going. Our helter-skeeter lurches forward are made shrouded in the darkness of ignorance. It is a miracle we advance at all. But imagine how much further it is possible to go if we knew more. View in LinkedIn

OTHER DIMENSIONS. "Why is gravity so much weaker than the other fundamental forces? A small fridge magnet is enough to create an electromagnetic force greater than the gravitational pull exerted by planet Earth. One possibility is that we don’t feel the full effect of gravity because part of it spreads to extra dimensions." A reminder of how little we really know. https://lnkd.in/ebhckwy View in LinkedIn