Sources have pointed me to this little nugget, by way of the CBC. I’ve written about this kind of thing before, but it never ceases to amaze — the flotsam and jetsam of the universe. Helps recall that there is no “cause” and “effect” — only endless forming and breaking up, transmutation, an ever unfolding process without recognizable beginning or end. It’s not billiard balls, and there’s no table, game or rules. As Aristotle suggested — the key — ever elusive and opening no doors — is entelechy. An answer to a question that can never be asked…
January 24, 2008 at 3:32 pm |
That’s such an excellent, beautiful vision of the universe you have presented. And hats off to you for quoting Aristotle. Perhaps the ancients had it right all along, didn’t they?
January 24, 2008 at 10:08 pm |
You are too kind. Just a few words gesturing towards the void. Though for me everything seems clearer when you really think about time. Linearity is so fundamental to our cosmology, it’s fairly hard to imagine a mind wrapped in a more organic, cyclical sense. Really and truly. First of all — we’d have to turn off all the machines…
And the ancients had it darn good — it was very rarely minus 20 in Athens.
October 7, 2008 at 1:58 pm |
[...] Smashing The first meteoroid impact anticipated from earlier observations occurred today. Named 2008 TC3, the smallish rock was tracked in space a day ago before it plowed into a remote location in the Sudanese desert. There’s an article about the whole thing on the Bad Astronomy blog over at Discover. I’ve also mentioned this sort of stuff before. [...]