Embrace Your Paradoxes

Abstract

A Grand Opportunity The universe is not paradoxical. It’s very tempting to assign the “existence” of paradoxes to the universe, but that wouldn’t really be right. After all, paradoxes involving our universe can “exist” in only one place in the universe and that is within the mind of an observer. Indeed, this is also the only place where perceptions, interpretations, and understanding about the universe exclusively reside. So, as tempting as blaming the universe might at first seem for those pesky paradoxes, the paradoxes really arise from the inadequate understanding possessed by observers, meaning us, the science community.