• Universe

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  • The Universe. It gives us time and space to live in. It gives us wonders we will never unravel. UB gave it a lot of thought and you will one by one find more stories about its beauty.

  • Is the Universe the black sky filled with stars at night? Does daylight make it disappear and end its existence? And is it everything but Earth, cause we are not part of it?

    Well to me You an I and the ground under our feet and the sky above plus everything else is the Universe.

  • In Dutch we say: Heelal, which translates literary in Whole All. Still in Dutch speaking countries people don’t include themselves, neither in the ‘Whole’ nor in the ‘All’. Where did we see this before. It is always Me and the rest... It is no judgment day, this is the way things work. But for me in order to see the big picture I see myself as part of the Universe, a bomb fragment of the Big Bang.

  • So Me, you and the Earth together with all the Stars and everything you can and can’t distinguish in the black sky are the Universe which deserves a capital U.

    So has the Universe a soul? We have. And we are just a fragment. See my thoughts on ‘IS GOD A WHAT OR A WHO’.

  • The Universe

    The extraordinary World

  • When we speak about the world we live in, we mean the room that stretches along the Earth’s surface topped by the clouds. That living space is but an ordinary island sandwiched by the deeper layers of our planet and the rest of the Universe with the moon and stars and our Sun during the day. The Universe is like a vast abstract ‘ocean’ that many perceive as the extraordinary world. >

  • > I can make stories that play within the ordinary world as most writers do. But like science fiction I can also tell stories that find themselves in the extraordinary world, in space. Especially the story about Beep* and Boop* which starts in the ordinary world and together they walk up till the last trees where the extraordinary world starts. From there on the world seems impossible to perceive. It is peculiar that this is no science fiction but science fact!

    Of course in that story I depict an artistic imagination of the Universe. But to me it describes the dynamics of the entire world we live in. That started from a single point from where we still receive the background radiaton, strangely enough from every direction.

  • The Universe not only provides space, but time as well. And we don’t need to go there, it comes to us. The light and warmth come from the sun that drifts through the extraordinary world.

    SCIENTIFICALLY 
    I don’t understand time and space yet the way Albert Einstein presents them as one phenomenon, but I do know that I live in the sweet bubble that we call Earth. It takes its year to orbit the Sun that for its part takes 225–250 million years to orbit the centre of our galaxy ‘The Milky Way’ along with another 200 billion and counting fellow-Suns. With our big neighbour galaxy ‘Andromeda’ and the ‘Triangulum Galaxy we are part of the Local group of galaxies clustering into the ‘Virgo Supercluster’. >>

  • >> And there are a lot of Superclusters that like a neural network together form the Universe. Just take a look at night. You’ll look straight into the unmeasurable depth in an instance where you can find these structures. At first sight the Universe seems superficial, flat. But when you start imagining that the moon is not high up in the sky, but straight forward some 300.000 km away, and all the stars are much further away and that the distance in between them is even much greater than between you and the moon, you start to get the sense of the depth. Just then I may feel a fear of heights and a sense of insignificance of my being.

  • Again, the laws of nature up or down there are extraordinary, but real. Even the hardest things that seem impossible for me to ever achieve, are insignificant against that greater wall.

    I am really eager to know how it all works. But then Science only describes how things work. It is the same way one can describe the human being in utter detail.

  • From a limb to a DNA-string till its most complex psychological behaviour. It doesn’t give the human being a name. What is the difference between Tom and Hank, Mary and Sylvana. It doesn’t describe the soul. In the same way Science can describe the Universe in its utter detail, but can never feel its soul. In the end I gave the soul of the Universe a name. And I simply call it God. Simply because I am raised in the Western world.

  • No Fiction

    Those outer facts stare us in the face from outer space.

  • The 1000 nearby suns are there. They are a fact. We can see them with the naked eye and those worlds can see us. We may be sceptical about civilizations up there, as they can be sceptical about our existence. Prove may take a 1000 years. I don’t wait for proof anymore. Einsteins theories are proven just now, a 100 years after. Fortunately he didn’t wait for approval and went on philosophizing and calculating. The western civilizations rely on proof and it made them great, sure.

  • But so they are always one step behind.

    So accepting logic thoughts that are well balanced around the equation mark as proof in advance, I can calculate ahead. Calculate beyond our daily Earth’s conventions. This gives extremely more possibilities. But even with that amount of possibilities I still need to believe. Those possibilities start counting the moment I ...

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  • Pulsar

    It’s fierce gamma rays will resonate through a 1000 worlds.

    If there is something that breaks through barriers it must be a pulsar. The most powerful object I know, more intriguing to me than a black hole. Such an enormous dense mass, weighing a few times more than our sun, but only 30 km across. And that electric and high energetic gamma rays radiating brick in the night sky rotates and pulsates a few times through a 1000 times a second with the precision of an atom clock. With that mass...!!! Can you imagine!??