Neutrinos at CERN travel faster than lightspeed, perhaps.
News of the (apparent) phenomenon of faster-than-light travel by neutrinos reported by CERN this month (Sept., 2011) comes while I’ve been thinking of the notion that the world is being drawn into the future by an attractive force, rather than being pushed from behind by cause-and-effect. The latter is the scientific position; the former is essentially a religious/metaphysical perspective. What the attracting force may be, is a mystery: call it love. If it is true that neutrinos can travel faster than light, then our 400-year-old scientific worldview, constructed as it is on a...
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Ranked among Canada's leading literary journalists, Wade Rowland has had produced more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from television journalism, organized crime and international environmental law to his current concerns, which include communications technology, the philosophy of science and the sources of human values. Full author bio.