(Published in GralsWelt special issue 11/2003) CREATIVE FORCES OF NATURE Does more belong to nature than the world that is visible to us? During the greater part of human development, the invisible, the otherworldly, was a natural part of the world. [...]
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World riddles and natural wonders part I.
(Published in GralsWelt Issue 11/2003) THE SEVEN WORLD TRADITIONS The natural scientist Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896), who teaches in Berlin, gave a widely acclaimed speech in Leipzig in 1872 on “the limits of the knowledge of nature”. He explained that there were a lot of scientific problems [...]
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The passage of Venus
(Published in GralsWelt 31/2004) A rare astronomical event On June 8, 2004 and then on June 6, 2012, a rare astronomical phenomenon awaits us: Venus, visible from Earth, will pass the solar disk. Such a "Venus passage" presupposes that Venus is at a knot *) of its [...] in the conjunction Sun / Venus
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The big bang as proof of God
(Published in GralsWelt 32/2004) The world is full of wonders, in the greatest and in the smallest. One of these miracles - something that we cannot explain - is the fine interplay, the precisely balanced coordination of the laws of nature. These had to be exactly the same, were not allowed to be slightly different, so that suns, planets, plants, animals, people could arise in our universe [...]
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Energy, entropy and time
(Published in GralsWelt Theme Issue 5/2000) With the term "energy" is also connected the question about the fate of the universe. According to our present physical world view the end of the universe is inevitable: Either it "dies" the so-called "entropic heat death" or it begins to contract again sometime, whereby also the "arrow of time" reverses, the time thus runs backward [...]
