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Happenstance
The "why" interests us only in view of the "wherefore." We wish to know whence we came only in order the better to be able to ascertain whither we are going…. Metacognition describes the underlying mechanism of my writings. I am utterly aware of my thoughts...
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Cosmic Web
We feel clearly that we are only now beginning to acquire reliable material for welding together the sum total of all that is known into a whole; but, on the other hand, it has become next to impossible for a single mind fully to command more than a small...
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A Tale of Matter
The night retreats on my way to Cleveland. The fog spreads its coat over the valleys. Trees twisting on themselves line up along the road telling stories to each other. I thought owls come out at night but I heard an owl one afternoon on the edge of the...
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Crossing the phantom divide
Poesy is a part of learning, in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination, which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath...
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The Distance Revolution
Who is crying in the distance? Why is it so sad? Ride a golden horse and see That it's the past Who is crying in the distance? Why is it so sad? Ride a gray horse and see That it's the future Who is crying in the distance? Why is it so sad? Ride a white...
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Realism
I read that Consciousness is the one that is not real, and the Universe is alone, dancing with the stars... To put it into perspective, we are 93 million miles away from the Sun. A couple of close encounters have happened lately with the passing of a...
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Weaving a Web of Reality
Entering a new decade of physics, there are spacetime crystals and teleparallel theories of gravity that seem to have taken a life of their own until the next wave of theoretical concepts washes ashore. As waves spread out, they break new ground, hoping...
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Dreams of the Earth and Sky
The evidence for a new Age of Wonder would be a shift backward in the culture of science, from organizations to individuals, from professionals to amateurs, from programs of research to works of art. It has been a year. Twenty-four posts reflecting on...
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Dark Holes
The hidden dark side of NGC 24 (NASA, GSFC) Staring at what is missing from this view of the galaxy NGC 24 in the Sculptor Constellation: that’s what dark matter is about. It is finding the invisible. By now tens of thousands of papers have been written...
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Gravity
Lunar eclipse over Lake Maggiore There are concepts related to emergence, information, and gravity, and properties like colors that point to a sense of universality. As the full Moon passed through the shadow of Earth, it appeared orange, reminding me...
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The Law of Freedom
Finding E.T., David Curtis While attending the 105th Commencement at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, I gained a deeper appreciation for the wide range of subjects touched upon by students in their bachelor's thesis and for the extent to which they were...
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On the future of humanity
Back in 2016, I read Yuval Noah Harari’s book entitled Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind . He wrote that it is “doubtful whether Homo Sapiens will still be around a thousand years from now, so 2 million years is really out of our league”. I wonder...
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The language of time and space
Leaving the States for a few days reminded me how much my own perspective is tinted by the set of spatial and temporal circumstances that define my daily life. I took the opportunity to read a few science magazines in French and got interested in stories...
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On the nature of dark matter
The ring of dark matter (ESA) Dark matter is the subject of an investigation led by teams of scientists on the biggest case of the 21st century. It is a phenomenon whose observation was induced by the movement of stars further away from the galactic center,...
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Cosmic Horizon
While the dense, compact inner regions of today’s most massive ellipticals have already formed around 600 million years after the Big Bang, given that the Universe looks roughly the same in any direction, if we stood on the other side of the Universe...
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Boltzmann Brains
Ensō As for the poet, she only sees the Universe as a symphony of lights and sounds played on the keyboard of time. Along with the Universe, we, too, are gifted with an emotional keyboard, but we don't play it the same way . Concepts, words, and emotions...
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On the manifold ways of being
Let us note first that there is a being of the thing perceived - as perceived The word 'being' is often used, followed by another word to specify a property as if just 'being' was insufficient. On the Art of being, I mean "to exist," I see the Universe...
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The Riddle of Existence
Sagittarius C (NIRCam Image) While it genuinely wants to lend a helping hand , the little acrobat is deeply fearful of losing its way amidst the landscape of probabilities . It proceeds once more to review the Questioner’s notes on the concepts that have...
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Round and Round it goes
Is seeking an explanation for life's deepest mysteries a worthy pursuit? Many scientists and theologians would say yes. Zen Buddhists practising in China from the 9th to 13th centuries CE, however ... Looking at the totality of life, the POET asks, Who...
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Emergence
Comet 46P Wirtanen seen from Dorset If I have to take along with me on this new journey one post out of those written in French, it would be the one relating to poetic reasoning. Creativity drinks from the source of the flow that runs through one’s body,...
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A hawk alighted upon my shoulder
Red-tailed hawk (allaboutbirds.org) There is poetry of this immediate present, instant poetry, as well as poetry of the infinite past and infinite future. I watched a red-tailed hawk flying off the edge of the pond one morning. Reality is on full display...
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On the nature of physical reality
Starting to look like I can’t write both texts at the same time and I can’t translate my words in English, for there is, I am told, a Golden Rule of translation : Translators only translate into their native language. It might not be true for everybody...
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Edward Osborne Wilson
Edward O. Wilson has passed away. He was for many years my only and true inspiration, the reason behind my own quest. I am saddened by his passing. Alike for those who for Today prepare, And those that after some Tomorrow stare, A Muezzín from the Tower...
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Consciousness and the Universe
How do we perceive the link between the Universe in which we all live and Consciousness that we all share? This blog will be in English, a change from a blog that I carried thru for the past 8 years at resonanceouvanite.com but since a lot of my sources...
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James Webb Telescope
Andy Goldsworthy's Roof at the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in D.C. The installation is composed of nine stacked slate domes as if they were black holes at the center of nine ... The overview presented in the previous post has set the...