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[Poll #14930]

a lesson on Euclidian geometry

This is a 5-minute read from start to finish, but I think it's worth a read. vyus obviously has a passion for physics, and he presents a pleasing mind-bender there.

Well-constructed story, too. The moral seemed to jump out at me from one of his last sentences, after he had described how the multi-dimensional aspects of space have forced physicists to expand upon the fundamentals of Euclidian geometry. In discussing the example of how a number of curved lines in outer space that pass through one point can remain parallel with a different given line (something that is impossible on Earth), he said: if someone were to be at one of those lines and stare down it, he/she wouldn't notice any curvature at all because he/she is in the space, too.

Yeah, man. Just in the space.

art

eatingart mentioned the address to his gallery's website a few weeks ago, but I just got a chance to take a look at it today. I really liked this etching of a tree that he made. I think he made it, anyway. Maybe I should ask him.

Here's a cool piece by i, too.

yet another demystification of enlightenment

fewtch just laid a great one on us. My favourite part is excerpted here:

The ordinary way of thinking is like standing at the periphery, gazing at the center and longing to be home. But in truth, we are already home, and dreaming of being at the periphery, wanting to go home.

We are home already. You are only homeless to the degree you imagine some better home, something to seek, something to become or to reach.

Simply ceasing to move away for awhile, it will become clear. There is nothing to seek -- if you seek, you move away. You are already that which you seek. You are home.