Carl Sagan – Pioneering Brother of Light
Carl Sagan on Life, Learning and the Universe
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer and popular science writer and presenter, revered and loved for his inspired and enlightened perspective and sincere efforts to truly educate. Enjoy these selected quotes. – Zen
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned Dolphinese.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”
“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” (more…)
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Is The Universe The Same As Your TV Screen?
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 by JOSH RICHARDSON
New Experiment Will Answer Some Mind-Bending Questions On Whether We Live In a Hologram
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is completing a unique experiment called the Holometer which has recently started collecting data to answer some mind-bending questions about our universe–including whether we live in a hologram.
Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D world exists only on a 2-D screen, we could be clueless that our 3-D space is just an illusion. The information about everything in our universe could actually be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions.
Take a look around you. The walls, the chair you’re sitting in, your own body – they all seem real and solid. Yet there is a possibility that everything we see in the universe – including you and me – may be nothing more than a hologram.
All physical matter, everything we have around us is the result of a frequency. If the frequency is amplified, the structure of the matter will change. This self-contained system is a hologram. Change any one aspect of the hologram, and you change the entire system. (more…)
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Science Discovers What UN.AR.I.U.S. Has Said All Along
The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time
by Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan
-August 2014, Scientific American, 38-39, 43
Excerpt per Fair Use:
“IN HIS ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, THE GREEK PHILOSOPHER PLATO DESCRIBED prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained to the wall of a dark cavern. Behind the prisoners lies a flame, and between the flame and prisoners parade objects that cast shadows onto a wall in the prisoners’ field of view. These two-dimensional shadows are the only things that the prisoners have ever seen-their only reality. Their shackles have prevented them form perceiving the true world, a realm with one additional dimension to the world that they know, a dimension rich with complexity and-unbeknownst to the prisoners-capable of explaining all that they see. Plato was on to something.
We may all be living in a giant cosmic cave, created in the very first moments of existence. In the standard telling, the universe came into being during a big bang that started from an infinitely dense point, but according to recent calculations that we have carried out, we may be able to track the start of the universe back to an era before the big bang-an era with an additional dimension of space. This protouniverse may have left visible traces that upcoming astronomical observations could uncover.
The universe appears to us to exist in three dimensions of space and one of time-a geometry that we will refer to as the “three-dimensional universe.” In our scenario, this three-dimensional universe is merely the shadow of a world with four spatial dimensions. Specifically, our entire universe came into being during a stellar implosion in this suprauniverse, an implosion that created a three-dimensional shell around a four-dimensional black hole. Our universe is that shell.
Why would we postulate something that sounds, on the face of it, so absurd? We have two reasons. First, our ideas are not idle speculation-they are firmly grounded in the mathematics that describe space and time. (more…)
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