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-Mark Linsenmayer
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Passing on this bit of loveliness. Thanks to Paul, who posted this to our Facebook group.
-Mark Linsenmayer
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Made my day!
Hilarious.
“Nothingness, I embrace youuuuu!”
True genius. There are times I actually like the internet.
Very fun!
Related to Stars and the nature of existence, I think:
Can any PEL listeners/commenters say what gravity is? Forget about who or what God is for a while…what is the physical nature of interaction of things in the universe?
Burl: I was watching a youtube video on the Holographic Universe idea today that spoke to this question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgi6E1ECgo
Thanks, Douglas, it was interesting, as were the two lectures by Prof Peebles on cosmology that were Youtube follow-ups.
I was reading some NASA astrophysicists’ FAQs, where they said gravity is still not understood. News to me was that mass slows time, so equal clocks, one by a black hole and another in ’empty’ space will run different. Listening to the physicists, I am concerned with how math takes a front seat to physical nature (misplaced concreteness given to abstractions). If time is change (or even if it is a dimension of nature), how can mass have causal effect on it?
The alternative to the fallacy of making abstractions the reality may be of interest. The rumors that Whitehead’s theory of gravity and relativity (which is an extension of Newton’s, w. no curved spacetime) has been disproven are not well-founded. It seems the physicists are no kinder to him than his philosophy buddies, like Bertie Russell.
http://www.andrewhyman.com/articles/whitehead.pdf
That sucked quite well. Appropriate there was no footage of Han Solo saving Luke or of victory.