Akshaya Companion

ebook Nothing Moves

By Anand Bhatt

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The "Akshaya Companion: Nothing Moves" challenges our most fundamental intuitions about reality. Delving into modern physics and neuroscience, this book rigorously explores how Einstein's General Relativity, a theory overwhelmingly supported by empirical evidence, implies a universe that is, at its core, utterly static. It explains how concepts like movement, change, and causality are reinterpreted as fixed geometric patterns within a four-dimensional spacetime block. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience from researchers like Anil Seth and Lisa Feldman Barrett, the book then unveils how the human brain, itself a static 4D structure, constructs our vivid subjective experience of a dynamic, flowing reality, including the illusions of time's passage and apparent motion. This work offers a profound scientific enlightenment, meticulously distinguishing between objective, static reality and our intricately built perception.

Akshaya Companion