Einstein’s equations predict that a light beam’s trajectory will bend as it passes near a mass because light also travels within space. Physicists have measured the bending of light and of spaceship signals passing near the edge of our sun.
Source: Robert Dalling’s Physics Lectures,
(via physicsphysics)
Source: scienceisbeauty
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
