APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
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Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
geckzilla,
If this was a history of science site, fine, but it's not.
APOD has always featured the latest, newest science.
And anyway; colouring in? Much vaunted as the new stress-buster, for those who have no life.
Although why anyone with no life is stressed, I cannot imagine unless from poverty, in which case a colouring book and crayons is the last thing they need. Astronomy? Now, that's a life!
John
If this was a history of science site, fine, but it's not.
APOD has always featured the latest, newest science.
And anyway; colouring in? Much vaunted as the new stress-buster, for those who have no life.
Although why anyone with no life is stressed, I cannot imagine unless from poverty, in which case a colouring book and crayons is the last thing they need. Astronomy? Now, that's a life!
John
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Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
You are a curmudgeonly old fellow.JohnD wrote:geckzilla,
If this was a history of science site, fine, but it's not.
APOD has always featured the latest, newest science.
And anyway; colouring in? Much vaunted as the new stress-buster, for those who have no life.
Although why anyone with no life is stressed, I cannot imagine unless from poverty, in which case a colouring book and crayons is the last thing they need. Astronomy? Now, that's a life!
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
The title of this illustration is "τα μετά τα φυσικά" (i.e. that which lies beyond the perceptual/sensual/measurable/material/physical world). It refers to the Platonist and Neo-Platonist philosophies according to which all material/measurable/perceptual things are but emanations (material renderings) of things that exist beyond the physical world. This makes them - at least currently - unreachable, hidden, and only approachable by philosophers who have experienced a kind of "enlightenment" or "vision" of that "other" world. The illustration shows this philosopher's moment of "enlightenment". If my words make no sense, I'd gladly refer you all to the allegory of the Cave, written by Platon (5th-4th century BCE) himself, in which he uses metaphors to make us understand that "what most humans are able to perceive, see, and imagine, is but a two-dimensional shadow of three-dimensional objects, cast upon the wall of a cave by the light of the sun shining into the cave from outside, and seen by human beings who are chained to the other wall and cannot move nor see the source of the light nor the true objects themselves, of which they only see a vague shadow or "form".
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
One day I will turn around and see who is painting my reality.
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
"Wheels Within Wheels" or something along the lines of:
"The Enlightening Of Ezekiel"
"The Enlightening Of Ezekiel"
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
Suggested titles of the picture:
"Into the Unknown"
"The Cosmic Matrioshka"
"The Worlds behind the Veil"
"Into the Unknown"
"The Cosmic Matrioshka"
"The Worlds behind the Veil"
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
A good name would be "Poking Our Noses Into the Unknown".
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Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
Evviebear wrote:
A good name would be "Poking Our Noses Into the Unknown".
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Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
I would guess, it is less the nose than the spirit..Evviebear wrote:A good name would be "Poking Our Noses Into the Unknown".
Therefore better: Human mind sees unknown spheres.
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Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
By no means! Sunshine and laughter! See my portrait!geckzilla wrote: You are a curmudgeonly old fellow.
John
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
A Peek into Heaven
The Mechanics of the Universe
The Mechanics of the Universe
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
supplement:
"We have not to ask why the human mind expends so much effort to explore the mysteries of heaven. ...
Our creator has added to the senses the spirit that we penetrate the being of the things, which we are seeing with the eyes, to the causes of their being and their becoming."
Johannes Kepler, 1596
"We have not to ask why the human mind expends so much effort to explore the mysteries of heaven. ...
Our creator has added to the senses the spirit that we penetrate the being of the things, which we are seeing with the eyes, to the causes of their being and their becoming."
Johannes Kepler, 1596
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
Caption: "Nihil est id quid videtur"
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
The "wheels within wheels" shows rather obviously that it is inspired by the visions of the prophet Daniel.
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
I stand corrected by Firmament. It's from Ezekiel.
Re: APOD: Color the Universe (2016 Jul 19)
Seek and Ye Shall Find
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Revelation
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Revelation
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