The Horizon of Reason

Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception

Tag: Egypt

The truth of Pi

My idea of a great time: smoking sheesha in Egypt, wearing my favourite T-shirt (ThinkGeek.com).
The print on the shirt consists of the first 4,493 digits of the number Pi in the shape of the symbol itself.
The number Pi, not the number 42 as some have proposed, symbolises the ultimate truth of the universe. Let me [...]

Pyramidologists or pyramidiots?

One of my favourite past times is reading different theories about the Egyptian pyramids. I am collecting books on this topic from every available perspective – from the factual archaeological approach, to the, sometimes outlandish, alternative approaches.
An interesting spin-off of this phenomenon is the debate between the rational scientists and the proponents of alternative theories, [...]