Monday, November 19, 2007

Big questions

The Templeton foundation hosts a big question every month and some of them are well worth a read. Among the discussion items include the following and may be accessed here

- Is It Good To Be Good?
- Can Happiness Be Measured?
- Do We Live in a Multiverse?

Does the Universe have a purpose? and Will money solve Africa’s development problems? seem particularly relevant and poignant…

"The great accumulation of understanding as to how the physical world behaves only convinces one that this behavior has a kind of meaninglessness about it" - Richard Feynman