Author Archives: John Pullen

This may at first appear to be a stupid question. Of course, we are real. Ask another question like, “What is real?” The world is real. Everything around us is real. We can reach out and touch something and it is there. These are all commonsense answers to the question of reality. However, if weContinue reading “Are We Real? Part One”

Parallel universes or as they are now more commonly known, the multiverse, have been around as a concept almost as long as science fiction became a genre. Our visible universe is three-dimensional with the fourth dimension generally accepted as time. We know that the theories of Isaac Newton about the mechanics of the stars andContinue reading “Universe or Multiverse? – That is the Question”

The Vatican in Rome has always had its own share of mysteries. In some instances, you could say “What goes on in the Vatican, stays in the Vatican.” There have been plenty of questions raised over recent decades to which the answers have been silent or bland. This has been pretty much the case forContinue reading “Pope Joan”

We live in a colourful world. The sky is blue, the grass is green and pretty much most things will reflect a colour which we can pretty much identify. But is this completely accurate? How do you know that my “red” is exactly the same as your “red?” Colour is a wavelength on the electromagneticContinue reading “When is a Colour not a Colour?”

Ask anyone to name a painting and it is a pretty good chance that they will say the “Mona Lisa.” It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci and hangs in the Louvre in Paris. If you are ever there, look for a crowd of people gathered around one picture. That will be the Mona Lisa.Continue reading “Mysteries of the Mona Lisa”

We have all heard of Homeopathy and some may have tried it or know someone who has. The feedback can range from the remedy worked and I feel better, to there was no improvement whatsoever. With such a diverse set of results, we are obviously not going to find a definite answer to the aboveContinue reading “Homoeopathy – Fact or Fiction?”

The first question most will ask is “What is an OLM?” Well, it is also known as a Proteus. Yes, I know, that doesn’t help much either. It is actually a worm-like amphibian of the salamander family. They live underwater all their lives exist in caves in the Balkans. These underwater caves stretch for many,Continue reading “The Diet and Longevity of the Olm”

One of my favourite books was written by the late Douglas Adams and is called “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It has been turned into a movie, a television series and a radio series. At this point, I must issue a spoiler warning. Part of the story is searching for the answer toContinue reading “The Answer is 42”

The Moon is covered in craters. These have been made by the millions of meteors that have crashed onto the surface over the past several billion years. Because the Moon does not possess an atmosphere, the incoming rocks do not burn up as most do when entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Therefore, there is nothing toContinue reading “Mystery of the Linne Crater”

It is often reported that today the population of this planet contains half of all humans that have ever lived. If we take a few moments to think about this, we can quickly work out that such a calculation contains some important deficits in information, making the statement pretty meaningless. However, what we can doContinue reading “How Many Humans have ever Lived?”