Wednesday 21 September 2011

In an ever changing world is the world in essence constant?

The world has alwyas been constant. What changes and evolves are our perspectives of it. For example, since the dawn of time we have know that when you release a rock from your hand, it will fall to the ground. But it took centuries for someone to perceive it in a different way and think of a model for this phenomenon (now called gravity). Of course in a few centuries, someone might refine the model even more and our perception of world will change again.

This idea is true for almost any other situation.
In an ever changing world is the world in essence constant?
the more things change the more they stay the same? or is it that we now see all the horrors of the world thanks to the media and we think its getting worse when in actuality it has never been any different