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The Known Universe by AMNH

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

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Essays on Ground State

092: KNOWABLE AND UNKNOWABLE

130: THE PARADOX OF UNKNOWABLE

134: THE MATHEMATICS OF UNKNOWABLE

142: DEFINITION OF UNKNOWABLE

173: Research into Unknowable

174: WHAT IS UNKNOWABLE?

176: The Factors of Unknowable

197: Infinity and Unknowable

217: More on Unknowable

267: Absolutism and Philosophy

271: Gödel and Determinism

 

617: The Ground State of the Universe

634. Awareness and the Ground State

635. Aristotle and the Ground State

643. Ground State of Universe – History

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Einstein & New Thinking

Einstein

“A human being is part of the whole called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space.

“We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness…

“This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty…

“The true value of human beings is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self…

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.”

(Albert Einstein, 1954)

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Motion and Space-Time

Motion
Reference: Awareness and Motion

In its most fundamental form motion is perceived in physics as a varying field that has wavelike characteristics, such as, wavelength, period and frequency. We may postulate awareness as motion to vary with different wavelengths, periods and frequencies as is the case with light.

POSTULATE: Fundamentally awareness as motion has wavelike characteristics and appearance like that of light.

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The wavelength provides a sense of extent. This extent is defined objectively by the dimension of space. Space is not empty at fundamental level. It is filled with awareness as motion.

Space is a measure of the extent of awareness as motion. Space is not empty.

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The period provides a sense of duration. This duration is defined objectively by the dimension of time. Time is not arbitrary at the fundamental level. It is marked by awareness as motion.

Time is a measure of the duration of awareness as motion. Time is not arbitrary.

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Space and time describe the motion present. The basic motion may be described as a harmonic of light (electromagnetic wave). If there is no motion there is no space and time.

Space-time describes the motion actually present. There is no space-time in absence of motion.

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As frequency increases wavelength shortens and recurs at a higher rate. Space and time describing this motion appear as increasingly solid. Layers of this increasing condensation may be observed in an atom. The inner nucleus is much more condensed than the outer electron shell.

With increasing frequency, motion condenses and space-time appears more solid.

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The science of wave mechanics explains how certain shells of atoms are formed and how the properties of elements are established per the Periodic Table. Different properties are the expression of different awareness of atoms.

The wave nature of motion establishes the property and awareness of different atoms.

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The science of chemistry explains how electrons are shared among elements to form molecules and a variety of matter.  Here we are looking at more complex motion expressing increasingly sophisticated properties and awareness.

Molecules represent more complex motion expressing increasingly sophisticated awareness.

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As molecules become larger, the electrons play additional role of forming circuits in outer shells that enable the macromolecules to store and pass information. Macromolecules then combine to form still larger combinations, such as, DNAs in cells that are capable of performing functions we identify with life.

Macromolecules provide still more sophisticated awareness that starts to approximate life.

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Further combination of cells produces organisms. The evolution of organisms then peaks at humankind. It is the sophisticated motion at every stage in the structure of an organism that represents its awareness. The sophisticated awareness in humans has the capability of turning inward to observe itself.

This subjective awareness in humans cannot exist without the complex human structure.

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Neither this human structure nor its sophisticated awareness existed at the beginning of the Universe. It is the human-centric bias, which projects such humanlike awareness to exist before the Universe.

It is human-centric bias that projects humanlike awareness to exist before the universe.

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It was the human-centric viewpoint that maintained, “Earth is at the center of this universe, and the sun revolves around the earth.” The human-centric viewpoint seems to maintain, “Universe is created by a humanlike being called God.”

From a reality-centric viewpoint all reality is awareness. This has been so even before animated life and humans emerged in this universe. Everything in this universe is imbued with awareness.

Awareness is not limited to humans and animated life. Awareness forms the very fabric of this universe. 

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Next: The Human-Centric Fixation

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Indian Scientists

Indian Scientists

When the crowded command control room of India’s Mars mission exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news agency clicked this remarkable image of scientists congratulating each other.

India’s Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words

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