I imagine photons on my sofa absorbing all colors except for grey and appreciate science for what it has allowed me to understand, and what it now challenges me to do: to keep discovering weird facts and to develop new theories to explain the quirky and not yet tangible parts of the universe.
Spirits of the Haitian dead — sa nou pa we yo, those we don't see — do not depart as in other religions but remain extremely close to the living, invisible but tangible, inhabiting a parallel universe on the other side of any mirror, beneath the surface of all water, just behind the veil that divides us from our dreams.
Convinced that "the natural laws that scientists had discovered in the universe were tangible demonstrations of God's providential care," Western Christians abandoned the apophatic, mythic approach to faith in favor of a pseudoscientific rigor — and then had nowhere to turn when Darwin's theory of evolution arrived on the scene.
But no one ever claimed that God or higher intelligence or the creative principle in the universe was tangible, like a rock or a tree.
It is that tiny asymmetry which produced a universe with enough tangible stuff in it to form galaxies, stars, planets and, ultimately, people.
It pictures the world's corrupt bulk as the starting point of a miracle that will result in a universe that is tangible but pure.
The eventual exploration of all these worlds will yield humanity's total tangible knowledge about life in the universe, essentially forever.
"The imagery from Hubble and NASA of space, these intangible representations of our larger universe, are destroyed by the very real and tangible invisible forces of nature," DeSieno exclaimed to HuffPost in an email interview.
"Through this crisscrossing within it of the touching and the tangible, its own movements incorporate themselves in the universe that they interrogate, are recorded on the same map as it" (VI, 133).
The earth has a tangible inside and is in touch with the surrounding universe, but through an intermediate zone.
