We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

One can only learn by teaching.

No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times