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"I am curious! Are you?" An Interpretation...

I have made a poem that reflects on the famous poem 'I'm Nobody! Who are you?' by Emily Dickinson into a completely different topic but still does follow the structure and idea: The poem by Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who are you? I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Don’t tell! they'd advertise - you know! How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog! My interpretation of the above: I am curious! Are you? I am Curious! Are you? Are you Curious too? A pair of us, there is! Dare tell a lad – and he’ll make an ad! How astounding – being – Curious. How open – like a monkey’s cries – To ask a question – until answered – To the Curious! 

Singularities, black holes, and the geometry of space

Singularities: An answer to a theory of everything Edwin Hubble (along with others) discovered that the universe is expanding. He absorbed that the majority of galaxies where moving away from us from its spectrum. Its spectrum appeared to be redshifted: when the light wave expands when the source of light moves away, thus moving the wavelength of light towards the red end of the spectrum. We know that if the universe expands, if we reverse time, the universe must have been smaller. And some long ago, the universe would have been the size of a dot. It would have infinite mass and density and would be extremely hot enough pull apart not just atoms nor nucleuses, but elementary particles and quarks of which we don’t know its components. This singularity would live in a single dimension, just a point in ‘space’ (in fact this point is space). We learn that this singularity might lead us a key of the universe. However, this isn’t the only singularity we can find in space or in time. ...

Why?

Why? The origin of the universe is unknown. The space that you are in was once a small dot, a singularity what we humans theorize as the big bang. You are not even a fraction of the universe. What is the purpose of our species or life on earth in general if we cannot even compare the size of humanity and the universe? Do your life and consciousness really matter? All the actions you do, all the things you think, everything you mess up, all that you argue, everyone you love, and the life that we all have do not exactly impact the universe. People do believe that your life will stay, and your spirit will remain; which of connects to the belief of religion. If you live in such a small lifespan compared to the ostensibly infinite life of the universe, do you really matter? When we say, “you can change the world,” does that mean you can change the universe and the spacetime that it holds? In the end, humanity and life on earth will be long gone, after all the stars die out and even the b...

The stars

What I think when I look up at the stars... A string of my DNA is from here. My ancestors live here. The matter I am made up of comes from here. I was, am, and will be here. I am looking into the past. I am seeing myself before I am born. The base of my existence lies here, in the past. The stars I am seeing is how the stars looked lightyears ago. From just 8 light minutes to 13.8 billion light years. The light that we see in the daytime are photons that are 8 minutes old. When I look at the sun, I am seeing it how it was 8 minutes ago, and when I look at the stars, I see myself. Or, how it was from 4.24 light years to the birth of the universe. And if I look far enough, I can listen to the big bang. I can find the story of these stars if I look further back. The time machine humans think as seemingly impossible is right above me, in the night sky. 

Different types of reality

Various physicists and philosophers have theorized different "types of reality"... Phenomenological reality: Phenomenological Reality is based on subjective experiences.  Whatever you instantaneously observe is instantaneously real to you.  This theory of reality means than unreality is non-existent.  Therefore, easy to understand dreams, hallucinations, weird religious or spiritual experiences (like déjà vu), and interstellar travel are all forms of one subjective reality.   Consensus reality: Consensus reality is based on the opinions and observations made by an ensemble of people. Some people may decide on an interpretation of an event, which then spreads across entire societies and becomes something that everyone believes in. A good example of socially constructed reality is religion.  Non-reality or nihilism: Non-reality or optimistic nihilism simple means that there is no such thing as subjective reality.  Everything we see, do...

Brain perception - the two halves of our brain

The perceptions of the right and left halves of our brain... The brain has two halves – the left and right.  They act completely differently, have different  personalities, but are the same – kind of the yin and yang.  In order for both to function, they must communicate as one via something called the corpus callosum.  Interestingly, scans show that male brains excel at thinking within one half at a time while female brains excel at thinking within both halves at a time.  The right brain... The right brain is concentrated in the present setting and time.It photographically thinks and learns through the kinesthetic movement of your body. Kinesthetic movement is how your body learns while moving. The right brain absorbs the energy and structure of the world around you and translates that into information for your sensory systems. It doesn’t know the difference between your own consciousness and the world the surrounds you.  The left brain... ...

Is reality real? A perception overview...

A few questions you can ask yourself before deep-diving into the truths of reality... One of the most common questions that philosophers ask is, do we perceive reality differently? Is spacetime differently perceived by you and me?  Are we at the same time, seeing the same things? This connects to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which says that if you know the momentum of a given particle, you can never know its place in space or even time. We are all made of particles – is that the same for us? How many realities are anyway – his, mine, hers, yours, theirs? What if different perception where different dimensions? We can never know any of these questions without speeding up time and warping spacetime...