Time: illusion and/or necessity?

Time: illusion and/or necessity?

For a majority of us, time is but an alternate term for what occurs between two random points on the clock. But, here is the gist: clocks – as claimed by scientists – do not measure time at all, but only our very own limited and conditioned impression of it. Time is a concept that […]

Zero the hero: How nothing became everything

Zero the hero: How nothing became everything

It may not seem all that intuitive that numbers and numerical systems could be susceptible to the same kind of transformation as any other cultural phenomena. When one contemplates the concept of number, he or she must be aware that they have always been dependent on religious, social and even natural conditions of the civilization […]