Infinite Time
“Such an expansion is not visible for observers outside the black hole, for whom the horizon’s formation and all subsequent processes occur after infinite time,” says Poplawski.
From an article in the Technology Review about a new paper claiming we, us, this universe is merely the inside of a black hole. Of some other universe probably likewise in a black hole.
While I’m on the subject of black holes infinity and the beginning of the universe:
Clouds
Just messing around. Might add a kite. Or a paper airplane.
Or a house suspended by a bunch of balloons.
“Why This And Not That?”
- Feltron Annual Report. An excruciatingly extensive collection of Nicholas Felton’s life each year since 2005.
- Tracking Transience. Talk about excruciating, Hasan Elahi has taken a photo of almost everything he has done since 2002 in response to being questioned by the FBI.
- Every Shot Every Episode. By Jennifer & Kevin McCoy this piece is the entire series of Starsky & Hutch segmented into it’s component parts such as “Every Wallpaper” and “Every Character Looks Left.”
- Napoleon’s March into Russia. An interesting use of multiple dimensions in Charles Joseph Minard’s infographic from 1869 depicting the depletion of Napoleon’s army with respect to the path taken the time and the recorded temperature.
- Newsmap. An RSS news visualizer of top headlines from various countries.
- Data Poetics. An art show at Google in New York City of various artists and their works expressing and interpreting data in various visual formats.
It was just the first day of class.
Chapter 4
Woke up in Ohio.
Went to sleep in New York.
Woke up in New York.
And then…
The sounds you hear are cricketing, are ribbiting.
Those lights and lack of are nature.
The sounds are not a city.
Have You Thought About Floating In Space?
Ed White was the first U.S. person to go extra-vehicular outside of the Earth’s atmosphere on June 3, 1965 during the Gemini IV mission.
What would it be like floating in space? Like floating in a pool with no risk of getting chlorinated water up your nose? Only having your blood boil if something went wrong.
Ed White later died in a fire during the preparation of Apollo I.
Pictures from NASA.
Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads
“Jeez, Doc, a DeLorean! What the hell did you do to it?”
“Grab the camera and start taping, Marty. I’ll explain as we go.”
City By The Lake
Hitting the Road
“Thinking back, it seems an endless time and yet only a moment.”
-John Steinbeck
