Category: Culture
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Tombs: Who Gets Remembered, and Who Gets Brought Back
Pharaohs built pyramids. Most people got a pit in the sand. Anthony on why your legacy is the only tomb you can…
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Is There Room for You? The Full Heaven Room Investigation
The pillar page for the Heaven Room series. It ties together math, scripture, memory, physics and money.
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His Thesis: God Is the Only Metaphysical Thing
Anthony Perlas’s personal view, stated as his view, not as established fact or church teaching.
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Build Your Cluster: A Colony of People Who Value You
The practical answer to the heaven question: people, skills and a name others repeat.
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The Sun Moves 230 km/s. Why Does the Sky Look Frozen?
Perspective is the illusion. Here is how fast you are really moving.
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Why It’s Harder to Hit the Sun Than to Leave the Solar System
Delta-v math in plain English: going down is the hard direction.
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Each Planet Rides Its Own Plane
Orbital inclinations, from Mercury’s 7° to Earth’s 0°, and why they are nearly flat.
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The Sun’s “Sink”: The Rubber-Sheet Picture and Where It Breaks
A heavy ball on a sheet makes a dip. Here is what that picture gets right and where it fails.
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Everything in Space Is Falling: Orbit as Free Fall
Astronauts float because they and the station fall together. So does everything else.
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Cryonics: The Science Bet on a Second Life, With Every Caveat
What Alcor and the Cryonics Institute offer, and what science has not shown.
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Saints Under the Vatican: How a Church Remembers
St. Peter’s Basilica sits over a Roman necropolis and the tomb traditionally held to be Peter’s.
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Why Pharaohs Built Pyramids: Memory Costs Resources
The Great Pyramid was a tomb for Khufu around 2560 BCE. Here is what it cost to be remembered.