“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus — Do you think life has a meaning? If so, does it make sense to seek meaning throughout our lives? If there is no meaning, is there any meaning to living? Here is a philosophical movement that we can bring some perspective to these questions: Absurdism.

“The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.”― Aristippus — We’ve all sat on a beach, immersed in deep emotions, or walked through the trees in a forest with the sunlight hitting our faces. These feelings were very different, don’t you think? Indeed, when we were all stardust and our living bodies were made up of atoms, we actually felt…

I do not believe that a theory can ever be found that can be applied to the entire universe. — Let’s start with what enlightenment is. More precisely, what is the motto of enlightenment? Sapere aude! Sapere aude is a Latin phrase first used by Horatius in the 2nd poem of the Epistles. It means “dare to know”. This phrase was later quoted by Immanuel Kant at “Beantwortung der Frage…

Change your understanding of happiness. — Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. — Charles Darwin Many people today define happiness first as being healthy, making good money, having a good job, having a good circle of friends and family, and realizing other ideals. However, it…

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. — When you think about this quote by Jackson Brown, you realize that it actually has a deep meaning. Just put your whole being aside and think about it. Do you really act as usual when you’re alone? The answer to this question is actually the answer to all the sociological…

The new map of dark matter confirming Einstein’s theory could exacerbate the “crisis in cosmology.” — The famous blue and yellow CMB image is a snapshot of what the universe was like in a single epoch, about 13 billion years ago, and now this is giving us the information about all the epochs since. …

The new calibration allows us to measure astronomical distances within ±0.9%, which lends strong support to the late universe measurement. — Today, when the universe is mentioned, something different comes to mind for everyone, and there are many misconceptions about the universe. Most people think that the beginning was the big bang. Besides this, most people think that the universe is 13.8 billion years old and naturally has a radius of…

A finite universe within infinity. — Let’s start with the name. The term was first used by British astronomer Fred Hoyle during a speech on BBC Radio in March 1949 and was widely ridiculed after it was coined. However, when the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, the term ceased to be a mockery and began…

New indirect evidence of dense dark matter surrounding black holes is of great importance for future research. — Dark matter, which still remains a mystery, is now accepted by most physicists. But dark matter is a controversial phenomenon, as observational evidence stems from rare events and there is no definitive candidate for it. As for why it seems certain, especially, the observation of two galaxy clusters colliding 150…