Perhaps Stumpf's struggles to answer the senators' questions directly and clearly were due to the fact that he's really trapped in an Orwellian banking sub-universe?
The makeshift dance floor in the park is one facet of a teeming city sub-universe: There are dozens of Argentine tango milongas, or gatherings, in New York, most of them charging a modest fee, and many of them listed on a Web site, newyorktango.com.
Following Husserl's views on how consciousness can modify its stances toward reality and de-ontologizing James's sub-universes of reality, Schutz developed the notion of various finite provinces of meaning.
Ant-Man at one stage calls to mind the 1957 sci-fi classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, who finally enters the strange state of simply becoming infinitely more tiny and regressing into an unknowable, interior sub-atomic universe.
While the complexity requirement for the best of all possible worlds would seem to preclude in principle the possibility of human beings achieving knowledge of the universe sub specie aeternitatis, Leibniz made a special exception for human souls.
With the discovery of the sub-atomic world's biggest celeb of all, the Higgs boson, scientists have now detected all the particles predicted by the Standard Model: a theory that beautifully explains how the Universe works in intricate detail.
The Milky Way, home to 400 billion stars, along with billions of other universes, all compressed into a sub-atomic patch.
Musically, The Bug's production took me back to discovering a corner of dub's universe I didn't know, one thick with sub and heady with vapour.
There has to be something in the universe that holds everything together including the atoms, the sub particles and everything else, but what is it exactly?
Yet the subject matter of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is immense: the very nature of the universe, from the sub-atomic scale to space and time.
The results of a study appear to confirm dark matter makes up an unseen, parallel Universe composed of sub-atomic particles that do not interact at all with the visible matter of the stars and planets.
