Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem — and what do either have to do with Silicon Valley?

NASA can land a probe on Saturn’s largest moon, 764 million miles from Earth—yet no one has been able to mathematically demonstrate the exact positions of the Earth, sun, and our own moon at a given point in the future. Scientists can make estimates, but these all rely on simplifications. Two-body problems, like mapping the movement of one planet around one star…