Philosophy & Metaphysics

“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it”.

– Bertrand Russell

3 Mind-blowing Facts about Time

3 Mind-blowing Facts about Time

Our life is governed by the flow of Time. For nothing would take place in our physical world without its continuous flow, from past to future. Our everyday vocabulary is very much influenced by Time through the frequent use of temporal terms such as right now,...

Why we may never fully understand the Universe

Why we may never fully understand the Universe

One of the main goals of this platform is to explore the mysteries of the Universe with the hope of broadening our understanding of it. This goal has been shared by many thinkers throughout time and still continues to this day. One of the biggest quests in the...

What is Reality?

What is Reality?

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein. What is reality? I think it is important to note that the adjective "real" and the verb "to exist" are ambiguous. As physicist Carlo Rovelli pointed out in his book "The Order of Time":...