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i in the theory of everything
The theory of everything

"Impossible" mathematics in the real world

How can an "impossible" mathematical abstraction work in the "real" world?

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old photo finds new life
Old wedding photo transformed

Old photo  undergoes a resurrection

It would be wonderful to believe that the transformation of an old photo is just a pale precursor of a wedding and a transformation yet to come.

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speculative scientific explanation of the Virgin Birth
The moment of implantation of a single fertilised ovum in the human womb

A speculative explanation of the Virgin Birth

Highly speculative - but not impossible

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has God put his signature into our DNA?
Paul Erdos - the source of the Erdos number

What is the Erdos number?

It was a kudos marker signifying a mathematician's level of association with Erdos

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has God put his signature into our DNA?
Has God signed his name in our DNA?

God and our DNA

How can the names of God appear hundreds of thousands of times in each human cell?

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graph showing pain perception
A new psychological principle of pain perception

Pain perception

We "perceive" pain depending on its level at the end of a medical procedure

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frustrated man yelling at his computer
The confused new world?

Technology - the new Babel

Technological heaven - or confusion

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map showing the bed of the ancient Pishon River
Did the Pishon River exist after all?

Pishon River points to Eden?

So, if it ever existed, where was the ancient Pishon River?

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Chopin - did he only play patterns?
Abstract patterns or something sublime?

Chopin Patterns

Chopin believed his music was nothing more than complex abstract patterns. Why was it so attractive, then?

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a compass showing true north and magnetic north - which to trust?
True north or magnetic north?

Which north is which?

Magnetic north wanders all over the place, True North is much more reliable.

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a tomato - did you know they can cry?
Crying tomatoes - Really !?

When plants cry

Botanists have discovered that stressed plants emit ultrasonic clicks ...

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A passenger plane taking off - do you sue the airline or the bot
Does the passenger sue the airline or the chatbot?

When is a bot a person?

The chatbot is really a person, argued the lawyers...

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how dark is the universe really?
How dark is it out there?

We live in a light-filled space

Our solar system is Light-filled - a miraculous place. But most of the universe is darker than dark ...

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puzzled child
There can't be a God

God and Disasters

Processes beyond our comprehension

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earthquake light in Peru
Red Earthquake Light

Elijah & the Earthquake

A new angle on Elijah's encounter with earthquake, fire and still small voice.

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the amazing 1 2 3
Bringing order out of chaos

Easy as 1 2 3

This little number exercise will amaze you. It doesn't seem possible. Try it on your friends.

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piano tuner at work
Individuality and harmony

The fine art of tuning

It's the Master's touch that makes you sing

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Cantor - the infinities professor
The infinities professor

Infinities without end

We can (more or less) get our heads around the idea of infinity - but infinities of infinities ..?

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bbeautiful garden plants can be toxic
Your garden in a different light

Poison in the garden

How could something so beautiful be toxic? But it's easy to be fooled.

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view of an astronomical universe
No wonder it's hard to get close

God loves dust particles

We always knew the universe was larger than we were...

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A spider's web and its relationship to zero
Cobwebs and infinity

Zero and cobwebs

16 divided by zero is as meaningless as comparing your web-making skills with a spider's.

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the difficult number 1
What is it about the number 1?

So easy - so hard

You'd think defining 'one' would be easy enough. It's so simple! Isn't it?

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these Hebrew characters demonstrate a contradiction
These 2 Hebrew letters reversed are a contradiction

God or nothing

In Hebrew the opposite of God is nothing at all

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display of earthquake light
Earthquake Light in Romania, 2016

Earthquake Light

No, it's not WWIII ! Scientists probe the causes of the new/old phenomenon of earthquake light

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red  mercury-extraordinary discovery or hoax
Scam or fabulous discovery

Red Mercury

Extraordinary and contradictory rumours have circulated about this substance.

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a glow-worm cave
Glow-worms and stars - cannibals, all of them

Cannibal Stars

New Zealand  claims to have the largest collection of glow-worms in the Southern Hemisphere, and the starry points seem lovely, peaceful and mystical...

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Man on paraglider trusts in physics?
How high can physics fly

Abstractions

Mathematics and Physics are much weaker systems than they appear to be

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interferometer bouncing light beams
When time stands still

O to be a Lightbeam

Imagine weighing nothing so you can be everywhere at once!

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butterfly a symbol of randomness in the universe?
A butterfly flits and changes the universe?

Randomness - or not?

Some quantum physicists want us to believe that the universe is entirely the result of random events

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statement-illustrating-the-liar-paradox
Trapped!

The Liar Paradox

The Liar Paradox is a famous self-contradiction that has been studied much over the centuries.

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ark of the covenant demonstrates the merciful one-half
Do numbers have mystical meanings?

One Half

Could one half be a symbol of mercy?

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glasses of water containing molecules of Christ's blood.
30,000 molecules of the blood of Christ?

Half a million molecules

In Antarctica I was given water from an ice core and told, "This is water from the time of Christ." That got me thinking.

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photo of earthquake cloud
Earthquake clouds at Christ's crucifixion?

Darkness

Is this a possible physical explanation for the three hours of darkness at the cross when Jesus was crucified?

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view of pierced quartzite rocks in CHinald
Quartzite - the hardest rock in the world

Quartzite - hardest and most pierced

Only a few percent of rock areas in the world are quartzite. One large area, 48 square kilometers, is at Zhangjiajie in South East China.

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boy calculating on abacus
Can you count on counting?

Counting is an abstraction

Huh? What could be more concrete than counting a pile of – for example - dollar coins?

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dalai lama believes in zero - does God?
Zero or God?

The oddness of zero

The Dalai Llama says the first number is zero and has a fundamental value. Does God agree?

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are we living in a black hole?
The latest theory - our universe is a twin

... and we're still guessing

How many theories are there now?

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dog saying prayers before eating
Worship or not?

What is praise?

Amen gets me my food...

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robotic axioms
Do axioms always work?

Axioms as cold as death

Axioms are the foundation of mathematics but at the quantum level they can break down

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the indefinable zero
Does "nothing" exist?

More on Zero

Much ado about Nothing

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did a bolide like this destroy Sodom?
Did something like this happen to Sodom?

Sodom and meteors

Did a fiery bolide take out Sodom?

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A Miyake-event would look like this the world over
Your EV might die but your DNA would repair itself

Miyake Events

These events deliver radiation doses 100x normal background levels but human DNA is remarkably resilient

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why 153 fish?
Why 153 fish

153 Fish

Ever since that number - 153 - appeared in the Bible, Christians have been unable to agree on its significance.

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child reacts to cochlear implant
A New World

Hearing for the First Time

A child reacts to sound for the first time.

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contemplating the meaning of the number 42
The mysteries of the number 42!

#42

In the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a supercomputer spent 7.5 million years thinking about the meaning of this number.

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child wonders at numbers
Counting can be tricky

Careful how you count!

How, why and what do we count? Is counting necessarily a good thing and how accurate are we at it anyway?

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