Philosophy & Science Entropy | 29 Oct 2007
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest.
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to [...]
Science & Thought Provoking Entropy | 27 Oct 2007
Why the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most incredible photograph ever taken
Why one particular photograph should be in every classroom in the world.
Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo: NASA and STSCL
We live on Earth. Earth is a clump of iron and magnesium and nickel, smeared with a thin layer of organic matter, and sleeved in [...]
Poetry- Physics & Science Entropy | 26 Oct 2007
Continuing from my previous post, I present another poem by physicist Dr. John Archibald Wheeler.
New York Times article By Dennis Overbye “Peering Through the Gates of Time” enlightens :
Dr. Wheeler helped explain nuclear fission with Bohr, argued quantum theory with Einstein, helped build the atomic and hydrogen bombs and pioneered the study [...]
Poetry- Physics & Science Entropy | 24 Oct 2007
Essentially, I would like to extend the motif of my fixation and fascination with Space & Time by presenting a few poems by Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler.
The first of these is:
Venture far
To see the nearby
With new eyes.
Perceive yesterday’s gravity,
Whether acting on man or mass,
As today’s free float.
In the movement of the mass
Grasp the message [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry & Poetry- Physics & Sufi Insight Entropy | 22 Oct 2007
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.
- Wislawa Szymborska Polish Poet (Born July 1923)/Nobel Literature Prize 1996
Excerpt from her Nobel Lecture
December 1996
Poets, if they’re genuine, must also keep repeating [...]
Paul Cézanne , devoted a lifetime to studying the relationship of space, light and matter, he also eroded single point perspective by introducing the notion that a painting can have multiple perspectives points of view. Cézanne viewed his objects as if seen from the entire periphery of vision instead of restricting them to a [...]