Musings On Causality
Photo by Joanna Suska I suspect the ubiquitous idea of cause and effect is slipping away. The West has been obsessed with it for millennia. Admittedly, it has been useful, but it does not appear applicable to everything in our universe. For example, scientists are again investigating the speed-of-light question, whether its limit is 186K m/s, as Einstein postulated. Experiments with neutrinos are being conducted at the CERN in Switzerland. Writer Leonard Brunk comments: What does this mean if cause…