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The human mind cannot
grasp infinity. We put boundaries that we can comprehend and explain. If
there was a "big Bang", what did the expanding universe expand into? What
is nothing? Similar to ancient philosophers, even the big bang theorists
seem to place the origin or center at or near us.
This painting depicts the expanding universe from our perspective, with
"us" at the center. The concentric circles represent stages in our
comprehension of the size and limits of our universe. The unfinished
canvas at the edges symbolizes the unknowable beyond what we define. T sub
0 (center) is the state of our knowledge now -time 0. T 2 sub 0 (upper
right) is the hypothetical state of knowledge of "another" universe of a
civilization in another distant world at the same moment. Anti-matter is
shown in the lower left as a black circular saw "eating" our universe
beyond our current concept of it. Einstein's cosmological constant - "his
greatest blunder" is within the black hole. There are many other symbols
apparent in the full size painting. |
