Valeriy Kalyuzhnyy/iStockphoto.com Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Funny Things Happen When Space And Time Vanish May 29, 2013 Can we act backwards in time? We can if we're talking about the world of quantum particles! It seems that the human mind plays a role in this time puzzle, too. Our role may even have something to do with why the universe exists.
If you ask me, it's a can opener. Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder, not a math formula. istockphoto hide caption toggle caption istockphoto 13.7: Cosmos And Culture There Are More Uses For A Screwdriver Than You Can Calculate April 4, 2011 Does mathematics have the ability to predict changes in our biosphere, econosphere, culture and history? What would be the basic axiom system from which we would try to derive all possible functionalities of objects?