When people say “the universe began 14 billion years ago,” do they realize that this is not true in the slightest? It’s not true not because they aren’t measuring things accurately. Rather, it’s not true because the standards of measurement cannot have possibly remained unchanged over such a time period. To put it crudely, this […]
Posts Tagged ‘space’
“14 billion years” (a pet peeve)
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged space, temporality, time on September 13, 2013 | 7 Comments »
walking on the moon
Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged history, space on July 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
This image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon, photographed forty years ago by his Apollo 11 spacemate Neil Armstrong, has haunted me for decades. Not so much because it’s taken on the moon, as because of the image on his helmet, a mirror image that suggests there’s nothing behind the mask, inside that cavernous helmet, […]