Marika Candelaria - Week 8

This week’s readings were based on quantum physics and portraying time to our reality. I thought this topic was very fascinating because I never fully considered how time is basically an illusion to provide certainty to our lives. What if time is not how we think it is? In “A New Theory of the Universe” by Robert Lanza, he discusses how we use a clock to keep track of time. However, this does not mean that our sense of time is real. The author then adds how humans have been tracking rhythmic events in nature, such as the moon, sun, and niles river. All of these events do not define what time really is neither prove that it is existent. These events give humans the illusion of time and contribute to how we perceive our daily lives.This topic is not fully acknowledged because we become stuck on the facts which science gives us. There is still so much to learn about time and space which we do not get to learn as much in our academics. They also emphasize how all of this should be learned in biology because it relates to human life and how it is formed. The readings from this week also reminded me of the first few weeks of class, where we discussed quantum physics a bit and how everything in life is connected to each other. I wonder what else we could find out about time and space? I also wonder how life would be if we added this topic as a form of general education so that people could be more aware of it? There’s still so much to discover in our universe.