Never mind that we frequent this place together, is it not true that these electrons meet in a prearranged way so as to give the appearance of words, in English, a feast, a table at which you may dine or not? (Such freedom!) But if there is anything happening at all, if the web is anything, it is a vast and mostly empty shared, imagined space. The most striking thing about which is the speed and ease with which millions of minds take it up. Read the rest of this entry »

FACTBOX: Physicist Stephen Hawking

As a result of this research, Hawking proposed a model of the universe based on two concepts of time: “real time,” or time as human beings experience it, and “imaginary time,” the time on which the world may really run.

“The universe is self-contained, and without boundary, in imaginary time. However, in real time, the universe will appear to begin at the Big Bang,” Hawking said, referring to the explosion thought to be at the origin of the universe.

What a lovely fucking paradox! Real time for the ticking off of our hours and days … but it may well be that Real Time is Imaginary Time. Read the rest of this entry »

In Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the foundation of modern cosmology, space is dynamic. It can expand, shrink and curve without being embedded in a higher-dimensional space.

This is critically important to keep in mind.

If there is no fixed context … what criteria are left, I ask you, except the moral?