As humans, we have many inherent objective perspective biases.
Foremost is a point like consciousness as a singular physical body that can look around radially in all directions.
Our primary physical interaction with our environment is as a flat plane, limited on one side and we normally occupy only the first few meters above it. It actually exists as a much larger spherical membrane with a maximum usable depth (breathable air pressure) of 8km. Like a thick bubble.
We write our lives and count the days but there only has ever been one day. It dawned with the nuclear birth of our sun and the earth has never experienced it's setting.
Looking out into night sky space, it appears black to me. But taking the perspective of space itself, it's actually full of light. Only nearly all of it is traveling at an angle that does not converge on the eyes of an individual being on the shadow side surface of a planet. If I should shoot out beyond this galaxy, and pause to admire Andromeda, I'd still see light from new places. If I were to orbit her, they would still shine upon every step of our dance. No matter where I might go, there I am at a convergence point of photons. "My God...it's full of stars."
Take a look at a balloon through a window and watch it grow in size. One might assume that air was added to the inside as that's how we normally interact with balloons. The same effect can be achieved by lowering the air pressure in the room, the air inside the balloon expands to match pressure. But some might say "It doesn't matter, the balloon still expands!" And I ask "Is the material of the balloon actually expanding?" Because I can count 2 ways it's contracting: The rubber membrane is contracting radially ("pulled thinner") and it is contracting as a horizontal curve outward in all directions. These combine as a contraction trajectory held in tension towards the volume center of a spherical membrane. It wants to collapse the space within because the actual material of the balloon wants to expand back out to rest tension, taking up the voluminous space it used to before the void space within existed.
My next major post will be applying this shift of perspective to the Big Bang Theory but first, reflect a bit, offer some criticism or you own examples. This thread is intended to be a place of sharing based on the joy of discovery and thrill of skillful travel. I appreciate you all as fellow map makers and am looking forward to hearing about the places you've looked from and your methods of successful navigation.
Foremost is a point like consciousness as a singular physical body that can look around radially in all directions.
Our primary physical interaction with our environment is as a flat plane, limited on one side and we normally occupy only the first few meters above it. It actually exists as a much larger spherical membrane with a maximum usable depth (breathable air pressure) of 8km. Like a thick bubble.
We write our lives and count the days but there only has ever been one day. It dawned with the nuclear birth of our sun and the earth has never experienced it's setting.
Looking out into night sky space, it appears black to me. But taking the perspective of space itself, it's actually full of light. Only nearly all of it is traveling at an angle that does not converge on the eyes of an individual being on the shadow side surface of a planet. If I should shoot out beyond this galaxy, and pause to admire Andromeda, I'd still see light from new places. If I were to orbit her, they would still shine upon every step of our dance. No matter where I might go, there I am at a convergence point of photons. "My God...it's full of stars."
Take a look at a balloon through a window and watch it grow in size. One might assume that air was added to the inside as that's how we normally interact with balloons. The same effect can be achieved by lowering the air pressure in the room, the air inside the balloon expands to match pressure. But some might say "It doesn't matter, the balloon still expands!" And I ask "Is the material of the balloon actually expanding?" Because I can count 2 ways it's contracting: The rubber membrane is contracting radially ("pulled thinner") and it is contracting as a horizontal curve outward in all directions. These combine as a contraction trajectory held in tension towards the volume center of a spherical membrane. It wants to collapse the space within because the actual material of the balloon wants to expand back out to rest tension, taking up the voluminous space it used to before the void space within existed.
My next major post will be applying this shift of perspective to the Big Bang Theory but first, reflect a bit, offer some criticism or you own examples. This thread is intended to be a place of sharing based on the joy of discovery and thrill of skillful travel. I appreciate you all as fellow map makers and am looking forward to hearing about the places you've looked from and your methods of successful navigation.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
