"Accept what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own." - Bruce Lee
"If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
"Kill your ego." - Rumi
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha
"Take heed that no one deceives you." - Jesus
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
"Know thyself." - Socrates
"Intelligence is the ability to see relationships." - Aristotle
"For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children." - Rudolf Steiner
"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.' - Carl Sagan
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." - Lao Tzu
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were big things." - Robert Brault
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" - Albert Einstein
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things." - Albert Einstein
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." - Jesus
"He who knows that enough is enough, will always have enough." - Lao Tzu
"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant relentlessness." - Albert Einstein
"Those who praise themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be praised." - Jesus
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
"No one is free until we are all free." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin." - Jesus
"The one of you who is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." - Jesus
"I have told you these things so that you can have the true happiness that I have. I want you to be completely happy." - Jesus
"Neither do I condemn you. Go now, and sin no more." - Jesus
"If you're going through Hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look." - Marcus Aurelius
"He who is brave is free." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger wind, the stronger trees." - Douglas Malloch
"If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first." - Jesus
"So you don't belong to the world, and that is why the world hates you." - Jesus
"I have told you these things so that you can have peace in me. In this world you will have troubles. But be brave! I have defeated the world!" - Jesus
"War is Hell." - General William Tecumseh Sherman
"All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." - Jesus
"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" - Abraham Lincoln
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am here. We are not putting down arms. We will be defending our country, because our weapon is truth, and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this." - Volodymyr Zelenskyy
“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." - Jesus
"Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Every war is a war against children." - Eglantyne Jebb, Save the Children
"90% of war-time casualties are civilians" - UN
"This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you." - Jesus
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.” - Buddha
"What is a bad man but a good man's job? What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?" - Lao Tzu
"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" - Albert Einstein
"If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was." - Richard Bach
"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." - Jesus
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” - Buddha
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
“I know what time is, but when you ask me I don't.” - Saint Augustine
"If you knew time as well as I do, you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's Him." - Mad Hatter, Lewis Carol
"Ordinary men hate solitude, but the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe." - Lao Tzu
"My Kingdom is not of this world." - Jesus
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Chuang Tzu
"The world in which we live is a four-dimensional space-time continuum." - Albert Einstein
"I wished to show that space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but are spatially extended. In this way the concept "empty space" loses its meaning." - Albert Einstein
"It existed before heaven and earth. How quiet it is! How spiritual it is! It stands alone and does not change...All life comes from it." - Lao Tzu
"No man, can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful. Even if some them have been said before, no one has expressed them so divinely as He." - Albert Einstein
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism." - Albert Einstein
"My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems." - Albert Einstein
"Love is God and God is Love." - Albert Einstein
"Only intelligence can create intelligence." - Alan Watts
"Now that he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me, that means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein
"As judged from K, the clock is moving with the velocity v as judged from this reference-body, the time which elapses between two strokes of the clock is not one second, but 1 / √(1-(v2/c2)) seconds, i.e. a somewhat larger time. As a consequence of its motion the clock goes more slowly than when at rest." - Albert Einstein
"When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which come before and after - 'as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day' - the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? By whose command and act were this time and place allotted to me?" - Blaise Pascal
"We all appear here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay without knowing why. To me it's enough to wonder at the secrets." - Albert Einstein
The Ultimate Answer
"Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity." - Albert Einstein
Time Dilation: t' = t / √(1-(v2/c2)) = Dilated Time is your time divided by the square root of, 1 minus your velocity squared divided by the speed of light squared. So the faster you go, the faster you travel through time.
Mass-Energy Equivalence: E=mc2 = Matter, is energy.
Energy of a Photon of Light: E = hf = the energy of a photon is Plank's constant (6.62607015x10-34m2kg/s) times the frequency of the photon.
Einstein's Field Equation: Guv = (8πG / c4) Tuv = The curvature of spacetime due to matter and energy is 8 times pi times the gravitational constant, divided by the speed of light to the 4th power, times the energy-momentum tensor. (Our universe is flat. Meaning the sum of interior angles of a triangle is 180°. Drawn on a ping-pong ball, the sum would be less than 180°.)
Force of Gravity between 2 objects: F = G(m1 x m2) / d2 = The force of gravity between 2 objects, is the gravitational constant (6.674x10-11•m3•kg-1•s-2) multiplied by the mass of object 1, multiplied by the mass of object 2, all divided by the diameter (distance between the 2 objects) squared. (If 2 dice are one inch apart, gravity will bring them together in about 1 hour, in deep space.)
The Drake Equation: N = R* · fp · ne · fl · fi · fc · L = The number of detectable civilizations in a galaxy is the rate of star formation, times the fraction of stars with planets, times the number of habitable planets, times the fraction of planets that have life, times the fraction of planets that develop intelligence, times the fraction of civilizations that create technology, times the average time a civilization can be detected.
Geometry / Algebra
"A point is that which has no part.
A line is breadthless length.
The ends of a line are points.
A straight line is a line which lies evenly with the points on itself.
A surface is that which has length and breadth only.
The edges of a surface are lines." - Euclid
Number Line: Like an infinitely long ruler, every number from -∞ to ∞, is laid out in a straight line. ...-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3... The line not only stretches to infinity, but there are an infinite number of decimals between any 2 numbers as well. Like 0.000000000000001 or even π.
x: Algebra: A variable (placeholder) in an equation for one or more numbers. Like 1 in: x + 2 = 3, or any number in: x = y. Geometry: the horizontal position of a point.
XY-Plane: One night René Descartes saw a fly on his ceiling. He realized he could describe its position with its distance from the left wall (x), and the bottom wall (y).
XYZ: "Space is a three-dimensional continuum. By this we mean that it is possible to describe the position of a point (at rest) by means of three numbers (co-ordinates) x, y, z." - Albert Einstein
Equation of a Straight Line: y = mx + c = Line y, is its slant m, multiplied by horizontal position x, plus the line's height c (at the y-axis).
Equation of a Right Triangle: c2 = x2 + y2 = The hypotenuse c squared is equal to, side x squared plus side y squared. (Pythagorean Theorem)
Perimeter of a Square: P = s1 + s2 + s3 + s4 = The perimeter of a square, is side 1, plus side 2, plus side 3, plus side 4.
Circumference of a Circle = C = 2πr = The circumference of a circle is 2, multiplied by pi, multiplied by the radius of the circle.
The Calculus
The mathematics of motion, position over time, and a few other tricks.
Area Approximation with Rectangles: To find the area under a curve, like a square house with a 45 degree angle roof, calculating one rectangle, (with its height set to the lowest point of the roof), will give you an approximate area of the house. But adding the area of 2 rectangles of half the width, (with the 2nd rectangle at the mid-point height of the roof), will give you a closer approximation. The more rectangles you use, the closer you get to the real area. As you approach infinite rectangles, which approach infinite thinness, you approach the true area of the home.
Calculating Motion: In algebra, you find the values of x and y to find the location of a point at one moment of time. In calculus, you first find the location of one point, then at another moment of time, find another point. Connect the dots to find the direction of motion. With multiple points along a curved line of motion, any 2 points, will give you the direction at that part of the curve. The closer the points, the more accurate the answer.
∞
"A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1." - Carl Sagan
Zeno's Paradox of Motion as recounted by Aristotle: "That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal." So you can never walk across the room. Before you do, you need to first walk half the distance. Before that, half that distance, and on and on for eternity.
"To see the World in a Grain of Sand, and Heaven in a Wild Flower, hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an Hour." - William Blake
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
"We need more psychology, we need more understanding of human nature because the only real nature that exists is man himself...We are the origin of all good and evil." - Carl Jung
"You know how people are, they catch a word and then everything is schematized along that word. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Those are only terms to designate a certain tendancy, to be more influenced by environmental influences or more influenced by the subjective fact. That's all. My whole scheme of typology is merely a sort of orientation. The classification of individuals means nothing! Nothing at all! This is only the instrumentarium for practical psychologists." - Carl Jung
Psychosis - a state of mentality that does not align with objective reality.
Self-Awareness - being able to see yourself, your own behavior, and how you come off to others, from the perspective of any other person.
Recommended: Watch Carl Jung's 1957 Interview
"You see, they depend upon other conditions. They depend upon their desires, other people, because they have no value in themselves. They have nothing in themselves. They are only rational and they are not in the possesion of a treasure that would make them independent.
But when that girl can hold that experience, then she doesn't depend anymore. Because that value is in herself and that is a sort of liberation. And that is of course, makes her complete, you know?
In as much as she can realize such a Numinous experience, she is able to continue her path, her way, her individuation! The acorn can become an oak! And not a donkey. She will become that which she is from the beginning." - Carl Jung
"I got more and more respectful of archetypes. And now, by Jove, that thing should be taken into account! That is an enormous factor! Very important for our current development, for our well being! ...Those are structural elements of the unconscious psyche." - Carl Jung
The 12 Archetypes: Artist, Innocent, Sage, Explorer, Rebel, Magician, Hero, Lover, Jester, Everyman, Caregiver, Ruler.
HR Diagram - Categorizing stars by brightness, size, color and temperature.
James Webb Space Telescope Deep Field Image
From a dark part of the sky, less than 1 degree across, Webb took a pic of thousands of galaxies spread over millions of years. Extrapolated across the sky, we can calculate at least 80 billion galaxies. In the image, the stars sparkle, everything else is a distant galaxy. Some things look stretched, this is because space itself is stretched.
Our Star
93,000,000 miles from Earth, the Sun's gravity fuses Hydrogen atoms into Helium atoms in its core. A photon of light is emitted and makes its way to the surface, being absorbed and re-emitted everytime it bumps into another atom. After 1,000,000 years it reaches the surface, then screams through the vacuum of space and reaches Earth in 8 minutes.
As the Sun rotates, magnetic field lines get twisted causing an increase in sunspots, coronal loops, and plasma ejections. The peak of this 11 year cycle is called the "Solar Max". Any sunspot you see is bigger than Earth.
We are the first generation in all of history to see the face of the Sun.
Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole, Sagittarius A
Astronomers tracked the motion of stars near the exact center of our Milkly Way Galaxy over several years. Keplar's 3rd Law of Planetary Motion says a body in orbit will increase in speed as it gets closer to the object it orbits. In the video below, you can see stars increase their speed near an invisible mass, the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole.
More massive than 3 million stars, and 16 million miles wide, the governing agency of our galaxy is a mass bending space and time beyond imagination.
The 1st pic of a black hole ever, was taken of Sagitarius A. We can't see the black hole, but we can see the gas and stars it burns and eats as it crushes anything near it with its extreme gravity.
SuperNova
How a Star explodes: Most stars fuse elements in their core. First Hydrogen into Helium, followed by Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Silicon, and finally Iron. Iron is tough, most stars do not have enough mass and gravity to crush this ball of Iron any further.
But what happens when a star does have enough mass? Stars about 10 times bigger than our Sun, will have the gravity of the entire star pressing on the Iron core. Within a second, the core will be crushed and collapse. Internal pressure causes the Iron ball to rebound instantly with incredible speed and energy. The surrounding gas hasn't had time to collapse and the Iron slaps against it. Bang! Elements are sent flying out in every direction at near-lightspeed. The extreme energy and heat involved creates elements heavier than Iron. These are sprayed out into the surrounding universe to mix with other elements, gravitationally condense, and create new stars and planets. Yes, even the universe recycles.
The Big Bang Theory
Says the universe had a beginning and an initial state. Edwin Hubble discovered all galaxies are moving away from us, which means they used to be closer. It turned out space itself was expanding and carrying the galaxies away in every direction. So go back far enough, and all galaxies, space, time, and even forces, come together into one. Way more dense than Iron, a Neutron Star or Black Hole; this initial state of the universe appears to be singular, motionless, and contain all matter, space, and time. Everything, everywhere, and everywhen, was one; there was nothing outside. The Big Bang Theory says the very moment after t=0, this perfect symmetry, was broken.
In the Hot Big Bang Model, at t = 0, the universe was in its initial state. In the very next moment the universe expanded rapidly. (Relatively, could it have been a shrink?) Densities of radiation (light), matter and dark energy began to decrease.
Temperature is the average speed or pressure of particles. Less than 0.000000001 seconds after the Big Bang, the temperature of the Universe was more than 100 trillion degrees. And all matter, space and time was still a thick soup.
Up to 1 second after the Big Bang, the temperature of the Universe was still over 100 billion degrees. Electrons, protons, neutrons, and neutrinos were all colliding into each other at relativistic speeds. Any protons and neutrons that combined to form nuclei, were instantly broken up by the high amounts of radiation in the universe.
After 340 seconds the Universe had expanded a lot and temperatures dropped below 1 billion degrees. Now when nuclei formed, they would remain stable. Some of the early nuclei that formed at this time were Deuterium, Helium-3, and Helium-4.
300,000 years later and the Universe cooled down to 3,000 degrees. The expansion of the Universe stretched the wavelength of light as the light travelled through space. This also lowered the energy of each photon of light. The energies of most photons were so low they could no longer knock electrons off of nuclei. Nuclei began to capture and hold electrons, and the first atoms were formed.
Now that light was no longer incessantly absorbed by a thick hurricane of particles, it could fly free across the Universe unimpeded. Light had escaped matter as the Universe transitioned into a new stage. As space expanded, matter separated to reveal space and darkness. But light had also been set free, to reveal space and form. One had become two. And the light had been separated from the darkness.
The first Nucleosynthesis reaction in the Universe happened when a Proton combined with a Neutron to form a Hydrogen isotope called Deuterium. Deuterium atoms later combined to form Helium-4 atoms.
Astronomers can measure the amounts of Hydrogen, Deuterium and Helium in the Universe today. By knowing their decay rates, they can trace their abundances all the way back to the beginning of time, about 14 Billion years ago.
Calucations also show a very fast expansion of the early Universe, known as Inflation. Astronomers found that an increase in Deuterium began at 340 seconds after the Big Bang. Most nucleosynthesis in the Universe occurred within the first 1,200 seconds. If the Universe had expanded slower, Deuterium atoms would have been closer together for a longer peroid of time. They would have created more He-4, and left less Deterium than we find today.
If you want scientific proof of the Big Bang, the Hot Big Bang Model mathematically links the observed rate of expansion in the early Universe, to the observed amounts of elements we find in the Universe today, better than any other theory.
"At the beginning 'all things were together.' There was a 'vortex motion' at a force and speed 'of nothing found among humans." - Anaxagoras
WMAP
In the 60's, the earliest light was discovered. Since, temperature variations, helped us map the early Universe and its evolution.
Block Universe
The theory that says our entire universe can be seen as one block (or sliced loaf of bread) where everything that ever happened in the universe, or ever will, is always there, space and time, in one big block, forever.
Vast Distances
If our Sun were the size of a coin, the next closest star would be several miles away.
If the Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be the size of a tennis ball, and about 30 ft away.
Energy can neither be created, nor destroyed.
Quantum Tunneling
A particle needs a certain amount of energy to get through a barrier, like a car going fast enough to crash through a wall. The particle doesn't have this energy. But Quantum Theory says it borrows the energy from the universe, gets through the wall, then returns the energy berfore anyone notices it was missing. Weird huh?
Entropy
The Universe becomes more disordered over time. Before the Big Bang, all was one, but now is 10,000 things. Any energy you spend to put things in order, will cost you more energy than it took to disorder them in the first place.
Why Nothing Can Go Faster Than Light
Einstein discovered that matter is energy. To accelerate any body in this Universe, you must add energy to it. But when you add energy to a mass, you also add more mass. A greater mass is "heavier", and so takes an even greater energy to increase its speed. By the time this body approaches the speed of light, the amount of energy you must add to accelerate it further, becomes infinite, as does the mass of the body. So only light, can travel at the speed of light.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
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