Entertain a Thought!

Credit: Mohamed Mahmoud Hassan . The past ... Our perception of time is one of the great testimonies to our faulty sensations and imperfect perception of reality. We all have this perception that we live in the present; that we are aware of what goes on around us, as it happens, in real time. But if you think about it, is this truly the case? Let's start with the easy one. Suppose you're watching a live show on TV. It takes a second or slightly less for the microwave radiation used to transmit the signal to the satellite and resend it to your receiving dish. Then it takes a fraction of a second, albeit very short, for the signal to get converted to an electrical signal that travels down the cables, gets reproduced into a visual signal on your TV screen. So technically, you are watching what DID happen a few seconds in the recording studio, not what is happening at the moment. Look up into the heavens on a clear night sky and open your mouth in awe, for what ...

Hello! Credit: Wikimedia Commons . Have you ever thought of (and I mean,  really contemplated) your blood as a solution? Have you ever thought of your cells as a solvent containing dissolved electrolytes and solutes. i.e. as a lipid containers with a jelly protoplasm and a fine meshwork of actin polymers to hold them together? Have you ever thought of your limbs as mere layers of proteins and lipid, organized in various mixes and shapes to form the muscles you move with and the skin that covers them? Have you ever, at your deepest moment of emotionality, looked back and contemplated how your pounding heart is a mere pump? Have you ever thought of your thorax and abdomen as containing a cavity? Have you TRULY ever tried to imagine that the food that passes your pharynx still has a long way to go down a muscular tube? Have you ever thought of your hormones, transduction cascades, DNA replication, protein synthesis and cellular movement as chemic...