The man who painted this picture is dead. His name was Edward Bawden and he was born in Braintree, Essex. Among his collection of works, which aren't noted for their cosmic content, this one amply illustrates the black and white nature of the Universe we live in.
While I bang on about the Universe and its laws (which I can't afford to do in Empowerment programmes if I'm to keep great feedback scores) I can almost hear people thinking, "All very well but I'm here, and that's out there, and it doesn't affect me and MY life." They switch off to go think about something more meaningful, like what kind of dog food to buy.
While I bang on about the Universe and its laws (which I can't afford to do in Empowerment programmes if I'm to keep great feedback scores) I can almost hear people thinking, "All very well but I'm here, and that's out there, and it doesn't affect me and MY life." They switch off to go think about something more meaningful, like what kind of dog food to buy.
Mind, life, thought - they all need foundations in physics before we can confidently account for them. The longer physics keeps these sentient qualities out of its equation, the more time we waste in thinking it's got nothing to do with us.
We are given eyes to see, and most of us can see colour. Colour is a marriage of light and dark. Black and white are both made of all colours - white reflects, black absorbs. Colours in between are variants based on wavelength, something else we now understand a little about. We know that electromagnetism and colour are connected, because scientists rely on this fact to conduct their cosmic surveys. Colour is given to our field of vision so that we can make more sense of our surroundings, inside the atmosphere and outside it. We appreciate Beauty through seeing colour. Beauty is a Quark, married in Quarkdom to Truth.
<This is an impression of atomic movement in Bose-Einstein condensate.
The article linked refers to it as 'quantum spin'.
We are given eyes to see, and most of us can see colour. Colour is a marriage of light and dark. Black and white are both made of all colours - white reflects, black absorbs. Colours in between are variants based on wavelength, something else we now understand a little about. We know that electromagnetism and colour are connected, because scientists rely on this fact to conduct their cosmic surveys. Colour is given to our field of vision so that we can make more sense of our surroundings, inside the atmosphere and outside it. We appreciate Beauty through seeing colour. Beauty is a Quark, married in Quarkdom to Truth.
<This is an impression of atomic movement in Bose-Einstein condensate.
The article linked refers to it as 'quantum spin'.
There is Light and there is Dark. Both these essences have manifestations which bring complications to science. Photons (light particles) are 'known' to be massless, and yet they behave like particles under certain conditions, as here where light sabres are joked about while quantum computing is referenced in earnest. Dark 'particles' are eluding all attempts to find them, which may be because what we're up against here is a matter of consciousness, rather than a matter of matter.
 Here's that image of Dark Matter you'll have seen in one of my Blogs before. That's what the Universe looks like, it appears. |  This is an image of neurons firing in the brain. We might be feeble mites trying to scratch a living from what's left of a planet we're consuming, but does anyone see a similarity here? |
The Universe is not interested in what we do, or choose, or think, or care about or cry over. The Universe is very black and white in its arrangement of things, in order to keep things simple. Fractals make for enough complication without adding to the ingredients. The Uncertainty Principle engages everything in a mass-generation of completely unique moments and bodies of existence. Non-locality ensures that everything is in touch with everything else and polarity keeps everything in balance. Simple. Light and Dark are polarities.
 Fermi's Paradox begs the question, why is no alien life evidenced even though the galactic neighbourhood should be colonised by now? Do civilisations burn themselves to dust in a relatively short period of time? If so, are we on the tipping point of becoming one of the Fermi-predicted self-destructing parasites or becoming an evolved life form that knows how to master its own intellect? |  The man who brought us Schroedinger's Cat set the stage for some very deep paradoxes in our scant understanding of the quantum world. One who John Gribben described as a 'quantum revolutionary', he died in 1961. Can we make sense of Dark Matter in time to know how to use what we learn? |
This has turned into a helluva long blog, so I hope it's sprung some things to mind that are worth the reading time. We have a long way to go, or a short trip over the road, depending entirely on how we choose to view our Present and whether we are prepared to say Yes, we are responsible for what we do, and some of the things we've done haven't been great.
The Universe really isn't cut out for political agendas or religious doctrines or moral arguments, it is quite simply set up to ensure that life has the best possible opportunity to further itself, so that the Universe can answer its own questions through its life forms. Quite possibly this Universe is a rarity among Universes, one which has established a framework of parameters to specifically create life as we know it to be. Whatever the truth behind universal intellect, we are part of it.
Not separate, disengaged observers, not hopeful outsiders waiting for a chance to peek, but Parts. Parts with a job to do.
The Universe really isn't cut out for political agendas or religious doctrines or moral arguments, it is quite simply set up to ensure that life has the best possible opportunity to further itself, so that the Universe can answer its own questions through its life forms. Quite possibly this Universe is a rarity among Universes, one which has established a framework of parameters to specifically create life as we know it to be. Whatever the truth behind universal intellect, we are part of it.
Not separate, disengaged observers, not hopeful outsiders waiting for a chance to peek, but Parts. Parts with a job to do.
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