My new article, featured in the final chapter of LIGHTS ON, is available now!
Almost a century after the paradigm shift caused by Nicolas Copernicus’s radical suggestion that the Earth orbits the Sun, our scientific grasp of the universe was once again revolutionized when the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head. Newton opened our eyes to a deeper reality when he described gravity as a pervasive force with laws that govern the attraction of objects in motion. Albert Einstein then came along and ignited yet another mind-blowing paradigm shift for humanity to grapple with. Einstein described gravity not as a force, but as a warping of four-dimensional spacetime where spacetime is the fabric of the universe. Once more, humanity was afforded a slightly more accurate window onto the universe…
