Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang

Author:Camilla Pang [Pang, Camilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, Psychology, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Autism, Autism & Asperger's Syndrome, Asperger Syndrome (AS), Anthropology, Child Psychology, Social Psychology
ISBN: 9780241987124
Google: r1ulDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07VMPTB3K
Goodreads: 49624060
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2020-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

7. How to achieve your goals Quantum physics, network theory and goal setting

It was my first heartbreak. I was eight years old, and he was the thing I felt the closest connection to, other than my dad’s fried noodles. You may remember him, as he was quite the name in science. I’m talking about Stephen Hawking.

It would be hard to overstate my childhood hero worship for the greatest physicist of my lifetime. From the way I ate to how I looked out of a window and sat in a chair, I tried to copy him. It even got to the point of me emulating him as my chosen hero in drama class. I told you, I was in deep.

But then my hero disappointed, confused and upset me. I was reading his most famous book, A Brief History of Time, specifically the second chapter which deals with space and time. Here, he explains how the historic belief of space and time as fixed entities has given way to an understanding that both are dynamic, shaping and being shaped by the objects that pass through them. Space and time are neither fixed, infinite nor independent of each other. To understand the universe we must visualize them together as four dimensions: the three of space, and one of time.

Hawking uses the image of a light cone to visualize this concept of ‘spacetime’, and demonstrate how past and future events are connected. When light is emitted it spreads out like ripples in a pond, forming the cone shapes. Because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, every event that contributes to (past), or stems from (future), the present moment must therefore be happening within these cones: at or within the speed of light.

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