Dust

Jan 08, 2004 14:27

Must be a few inches of the stuff on my LJ by now. Exfoliation, dead bugs, stardust...all that kind of thing.

Such a muddle of thought today. Bit tedious. Bit overwhelming. Nothing in particular.

The good things in my life are good. Some of them strengthed by recent happenings.

The bad things in my life are few and distant although not really resolveable. For some things there is no fix, there is only 'as best you can'. It's the learning to recognize/accept that and then find an acceptable place for that that's the tough part. I'm fond of resolution.

Theology would have such a better time of things if there was no night. Perpetual daylight, blocking out all vestiges of anything beyond the big blue. We'd have the moon to gawk at and she'd pose a bit of an enigma, but nothing so vast as limitless space and billions of galaxies each containing billions of stars and beyond the outer reaches, to all apparent methods...nothing? If you remove the stimulus for the forming of questions then even the inquisitive can be somewhat controlled, except perhaps for those more prone to philosophy than others. Yet even they would have less to trigger the introspection.

Gravastars. Latest theory concerning blackholes. Instead of a singularity you take that star and imagine a giant, thin, black bubble. Same gravitational properties of a blackhole for all intents and purposes, it's just that stuff gets sucked into the bubble and is obliterated when it connects with it, after which everything is sucked through the bubble into the inside. Interesting I suppose. They go as far to surmise that our known universe might be inside of one of these bubbles, that's why out there at the edge...only black.

What mainly fascinates me is the attempt to comprehend. People generally enjoy the process of deduction even if it is primarily driven by a need to simplify to save time/effort. When people stare at the heavens it's as though each time their gaze shifts, so does their focus. Leave one constellation, the other takes center stage, the old one noted and put aside. For kicks I enjoy trying to cram as much as I can into my perception, trying to not make more room by discarding, but simply making more room for more. It's akin to trying to force your brain into coming up with a first person 360 degree view. From birth we have, at best, something slightly less than a 180 degree hemisphere of visual awareness. That is our primary source of input. Doesn't mean the brain couldn't handle a greater view, we just don't develop it. Trying to expand your field of vision without shifting focus is enough to make me feel queasy at times. But it's something I find damn fascinating. To me, life IS perception. But that would be the simplified explanation. The problem with that is that simplification leaves things behind, and sometimes, those things are important.
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