Sunday, February 19, 2012
Celestial Spheres
Here are a few pictures I took with a Canon EOS t2i of the suburban philadelphia night sky.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Universe and It's Awesomeness: Infinite Time
few notes. . .
" This piece has been written in it's purest form without many revisions. Also, Vinny states that infinite time exist, infinite mass exist! Well done old chap! We'll have to explore the idea one day. . ."
To categorize everything fathomable in life, human beings could name every thing from physical to spiritual; often times never coming to a consensus of what life really is. The most universal unit of measuring life would be time, since it is initially described in everything (and can be used to describe everything). Most would say the universe itself is how one would describe everything around them, but is not the universe a measure of time itself? Theories like the Big Bang shrink the universe down to the smallest (infinitely small) subatomic form, claiming that the universe was extremely dense and hot in it’s nebulous stages. All of sudden out of nowhere the universe had a cosmic growth spurt expanding over billions of years into what we now know. One argument that can obviously be raised is how can humans accurately depict time in the universe if they were never there to record the initial start of time itself. Despite figuring out the age of the universe, it still wouldn’t tell one much about time compared to “cosmic time” (defining cosmic time as everything including earth’s time). Scientist have developed methods of analyzing how fast galaxies are moving away from each other claiming cosmic expansion. Others say that the universe could be apart of a system of multi-verses that go on forever endlessly. Regardless of what/how old the universe may be, humans will never be able to understand their manipulation of cosmic phenomena due to their perspective of time.
The renowned, now deceased astronomer, Carl Sagan once had a show called Cosmos. In one episode he stated that the Earth was nothing but “a pale blue dot” apart a small corner, in a small galaxy, in an infinite universe. Sagan had a point in comparing the Earth to the rest of the universe (this could bring up many points to the mentality of human beings and the things they deem important, but that is another 2fer) really putting the universe on the infinite scale. Look at the universe as a vessel of time. It is a ship that represents time in itself, and if the universe were infinite, would not time be infinite as well? When someone says they have all the time in the world, they do not only have all the time in the world, but in the universe as well. If time is then infinite, no precise measurement could ever be made of it. The record of time would only be fictitious misrepresentations of actions that only let the observer observe in one moment. It would be very difficult for beings of Earth to view time as infinite, since human beings (most of them anyway) live in the 3rd dimension creating perspective only for a moment. If humans possessed the ability to observe time infinitely then any and every action would still occur never ending, but only spawning new actions based on decisions of the participant of that moment.
Thinking of the universe as always and forever infinite makes it much easier to think about the fate of the universe, and what the universe actually is. Some scientist believes that humans are living in the golden age of the universe. A time where stars are in their prime, and there is enough decaying stars to spawn the life of new stars for a little more than a few billion years to come. They then believe that the universe will enter its second dark age; a period where all light is lost after the death of the last star. It is hard to fathom a time such like this considering the state of the universe being infinite. This would mean that the rate at which celestial objects are born would be infinite (even though most of the universe is comprised of dark matter/dark flow). If all of this is applicable and time and the universe are really infinite, the existence of parallel universes would never be brought up. One can look at infinite time and infinite universe equal to the theory parallel universes from a 3rd dimension perspective.
In conclusion, one could suppose that due a limited perspective human beings will never come to truly understand whether or not the universe is infinite. If not (meaning the universe is finite) humans should come to terms as to how to manipulate its wonders rather quickly in the next couple of centuries. For civilizations of Earth, and the overall mentality of human beings, the observation of infinite time would create a cosmic conscious. Although it may never be seen in the realm of the universe that Earth exist in, infinite time houses all factions of life.
Note: In the book I am reading “Foundation and Earth” by Isaac Asimov, a planet named Gaia is of great significance, you will know about it soon in my projects to come and why it relates to my ideas of infinite time/infinite universe.
" This piece has been written in it's purest form without many revisions. Also, Vinny states that infinite time exist, infinite mass exist! Well done old chap! We'll have to explore the idea one day. . ."
To categorize everything fathomable in life, human beings could name every thing from physical to spiritual; often times never coming to a consensus of what life really is. The most universal unit of measuring life would be time, since it is initially described in everything (and can be used to describe everything). Most would say the universe itself is how one would describe everything around them, but is not the universe a measure of time itself? Theories like the Big Bang shrink the universe down to the smallest (infinitely small) subatomic form, claiming that the universe was extremely dense and hot in it’s nebulous stages. All of sudden out of nowhere the universe had a cosmic growth spurt expanding over billions of years into what we now know. One argument that can obviously be raised is how can humans accurately depict time in the universe if they were never there to record the initial start of time itself. Despite figuring out the age of the universe, it still wouldn’t tell one much about time compared to “cosmic time” (defining cosmic time as everything including earth’s time). Scientist have developed methods of analyzing how fast galaxies are moving away from each other claiming cosmic expansion. Others say that the universe could be apart of a system of multi-verses that go on forever endlessly. Regardless of what/how old the universe may be, humans will never be able to understand their manipulation of cosmic phenomena due to their perspective of time.
The renowned, now deceased astronomer, Carl Sagan once had a show called Cosmos. In one episode he stated that the Earth was nothing but “a pale blue dot” apart a small corner, in a small galaxy, in an infinite universe. Sagan had a point in comparing the Earth to the rest of the universe (this could bring up many points to the mentality of human beings and the things they deem important, but that is another 2fer) really putting the universe on the infinite scale. Look at the universe as a vessel of time. It is a ship that represents time in itself, and if the universe were infinite, would not time be infinite as well? When someone says they have all the time in the world, they do not only have all the time in the world, but in the universe as well. If time is then infinite, no precise measurement could ever be made of it. The record of time would only be fictitious misrepresentations of actions that only let the observer observe in one moment. It would be very difficult for beings of Earth to view time as infinite, since human beings (most of them anyway) live in the 3rd dimension creating perspective only for a moment. If humans possessed the ability to observe time infinitely then any and every action would still occur never ending, but only spawning new actions based on decisions of the participant of that moment.
Thinking of the universe as always and forever infinite makes it much easier to think about the fate of the universe, and what the universe actually is. Some scientist believes that humans are living in the golden age of the universe. A time where stars are in their prime, and there is enough decaying stars to spawn the life of new stars for a little more than a few billion years to come. They then believe that the universe will enter its second dark age; a period where all light is lost after the death of the last star. It is hard to fathom a time such like this considering the state of the universe being infinite. This would mean that the rate at which celestial objects are born would be infinite (even though most of the universe is comprised of dark matter/dark flow). If all of this is applicable and time and the universe are really infinite, the existence of parallel universes would never be brought up. One can look at infinite time and infinite universe equal to the theory parallel universes from a 3rd dimension perspective.
In conclusion, one could suppose that due a limited perspective human beings will never come to truly understand whether or not the universe is infinite. If not (meaning the universe is finite) humans should come to terms as to how to manipulate its wonders rather quickly in the next couple of centuries. For civilizations of Earth, and the overall mentality of human beings, the observation of infinite time would create a cosmic conscious. Although it may never be seen in the realm of the universe that Earth exist in, infinite time houses all factions of life.
Note: In the book I am reading “Foundation and Earth” by Isaac Asimov, a planet named Gaia is of great significance, you will know about it soon in my projects to come and why it relates to my ideas of infinite time/infinite universe.
Hello. . . anyone there?
I have spent a nice amount of time away from this electronic journal and I realize that it is almost imperative of me to keep writing. Life has been moving about as always and as of I now I am almost stationary on my path while it keeps moving from under me. I know I will catch up in due time. There is so much that I want to talk about. . . I've been wondering why don't more people in the United States travel by train? It makes so much sense. Anyways, I would like all to know that I will be attempting to post a relatively longer passage of words centered around a topic of general scientific interest. Commentary and feedback will be appreciated. A funny thing to let everyone know is I am doing quite well in my pre-calculus class. . . The wonders and simplicity of trigonometry is absolutely beautiful. Until then,
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Winston Wellington Wright
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Winston Wellington Wright
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