NASA, Hubble, Spitzer and the Megamaser

Inspirations | NASA Images

The NASA website is an incredible, information-rich resource. It delivers the wonders of the universe directly into our living rooms, PCs and mobiles. Detailed descriptions of missions, satellites, far galaxies and star forming regions of the universe are constantly updated and hypnotic images bring us visions far beyond our ability to view with the naked eye. And we can download …

these fantastic worlds, jake jackson, photon pairs

Concepts | Event Horizon

In the sf and fantasy fiction of Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds the event horizon is used in two distinct but inter-related ways. Firstly as a metaphor for imprisonment, and the impossibility of escape, secondly as an event in the physical universe where the action of its super-gravity on a photon pair can cause a momentary break in the conservation …

Schopenhaur's Will, Fibonacci spiral

Concepts | Schopenhaur’s Will

Schopenhauer was a German philosopher who built on Kant’s ground-breaking work on human consciousness. He explored the nature of spirit, motivation and existence within our perception of space and time. His philosophy offers some intriguing perspectives on the beginnings of our universe, with its implications on belief, matter and the ongoing state of the expanding universe. Will as a Force Schopenhaur’s …

The Universe and the Living World | Concepts and Symbols behind the fiction

Concepts | Fibonacci Patterns

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 23 31 54 etc, the Fibonacci sequence (where the total of the two preceding numbers equals the next number) can be found in many aspects of life. Based on Phi it expresses a fundamental relationship between numbers and shapes, and seems to measure the motivating force behind the growth of such systems, from the slow turn …