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Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye the brightest stars are more than a hundred times brighter than the dimmest. So the dim ones are obviously a hundred times farther away from Earth, aren't they? Nope. That simple argument boldly assumes that all stars are intrinsically equally luminous, automatically making the near ones brighter than the far ones. Stars, however, come in a staggering range of luminosities, spanning ten orders of magnitude ten powers of ten. So the brightest stars are not necessarily the ones closest to Earth. In fact, most of the stars you see in the night sky are of the highly luminous variety, and they lie extraordinarily far away. If most of the stars we see are highly luminous, then surely those stars are common throughout the galaxy. Nope again. High-luminosity stars are the rarest. In any given volume of space, they're outnumbered by the low-luminosity stars a thousand to one. It's the prodigious energy output of high-luminosity stars that enables you to see them across such large volumes of space.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


#physics #death

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.


Mark Z. Danielewski


#equilibrium #harmony #mathematics #metaphysics #physics

Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound. It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of he brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?


Paul Davies


#now #physics #time #time-passing #experience

Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food.


Robert M. Pirsig


#food

Wii Sports: All the frustration of real sports with out the physical exercise.


Felix Harneis


#humor #physical-exercise #sports #wii #humor

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.


Arthur Stanley Eddington


#physics #science #universe #imagination

Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it.


Doug Dillon


#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural #synchronicity

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.


Anita Shreve


#emotion #grief #life #pain #physical

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


#neil-degrasse-tyson #physics #telescope #universe #life

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.


Lauren Ambrose


#because #doing #especially #experience #fun






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