I was thinking about the wavelengths in light, sound waves, smell, touch and emotions that all make up everything around us. The more I think about it, the less real everything seems to be. We could all be imagining everything - how amazing our brains are, how amazing human beings are. There could be so much we are missing, too. I mean, I don't know deeply about wavelengths and sound waves but I find it all fascinating. I am not going to go in to any details about it but just the way the theory is all about how our brains interpret the information.
I was watching a documentary, "Wonders of the Universe" with Prof. Brian Cox. It really was fantastic. The fact that every natural thing on this planet is made of the same elements. It makes me think of a whole new equality with every animal, tree and rock. He said,
"Every mountain, every rock on this planet, every living thing, every piece of you and me was forged in the furnaces of space. … Every atom in our bodies was formed not on Earth, but was created in the depths of space, through the epic life cycle of the stars."It evokes the idea that there is an energy which allows us to be alive but it is only borrowed. We are all stars, we are made of them.
Incredible, isn't it? That purely the combination of elements makes everything its own.
I have been over thinking this theory and it feels like my brain is filled with misinterpretations and everything is a figment of my imagination. I then question why I am so uptight about everything and how trivial my worries are in proportion to the universe. In proportion to everyday life at home, they are perfectly normal things...that tend to be on the irrational and unrealistic side...but then, what is being irrational? What is unrealistic? What is real?
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ReplyDeleteit all depends on the curvature of the goldfish bowl, or at least, on which side of it you're looking through.
ReplyDeleteVery true! :D
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I'm interested in what people and animals can't perceive, what could be out there that we don't know about.(Hard to explain but...) Is what we are seeing is actually real? Sure, we can touch, see, hear and emotionally feel things which make them real but what if our brains are skewing what is actually real.
have you read any hawking? in his book "the grand design" he discusses the concept that the human brain is a lens, analogous to the goldfish's bowl. this is due to the fact that we are limited to our perception of three space dimensions and one of time. we can describe laws of physics that describe the universe around us, but we are limited by the "lens" that we view these laws through.
ReplyDelete"for example, due to the distortion, a freely moving object that we would observe to move in a straight line would be observed by the goldfish to move along a curved path. nevertheless, the goldfish could formulate scientific laws from their distorted frame of reference that would always hold true and that would enable them to make predictions about the future motion of objects outside the bowl" - the grand design,stephen hawking and leonard mlodinow.
he goes on to say that the goldfish's view is just as valid as our own. in fact this is what relativity is all about. the point is that it doesn't really matter. the only thing that is important in terms of what is "real" is that we use what best describes what it is we perceive.
I will read that book at some point. Thank you for sharing(and also reading my post)!
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