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Qualia seems to puzzle many philosophers and people. They say it is 'the how things look'. A person wishing to express it will often ask you to describe such things as colors, hunger smell etc. He might ask you a case where in you are trying to describe say color 'blue' to a blind man. If you lack w...

Ok, then mater as 'that which has properties' is esential to science as science is about observation and we can't possibly observe that which lacks properties. Specifically, 'mass' should not be seen as the essence of matter. It is especially so in the contemporary physics after the advent of relati...

There is still another sense of 'arrow of time' that has recently been discovered. In particle decay, we now know that the laws of phyc are not invariant under time riversal! There is indead some objective notion of past and future known by the universe in very fundamental stage! Some even say that ...

The contemporary assumption of mainstream science is that the cosmos is looks the same in all directions and as seen from all places. An anisotropic universe is that depends on direction. Like an inhomogeneous universe, the universe can be such vastly different in certain directions that it alltoget...