SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 kelvins (about 1.08 million F). In this wavelength it is easy to…
We noted that observation is a step beyond merely seeing or responding to our senses. It is a conscious and sustained mode of recording our sense impressions of the external world. In a scientific observation one tries to relate what is observed to its several parts or to other observed phenomena: In other words, one…
I find the mass fears and popular mythologies unhelpful and dangerous. It is useful, however, to contemplate, and to some extent prepare for the “worst-case scenarios.”
It’s not much fun being a cow or a sheep in Englandat the moment. In fact, it is not much fun being anyone in England at the moment. My wife Lizzie just returned from a week’s trip there, and she found the place a bit like a fortress – or a prison, more like. She…
NOMA One way of dealing with the apparent conflict between science and religion is to say that they are two different ways of looking at things, and that it is pointless to try to relate them, or to try to find common ground between them. This is an idea that crops up occasionally in discussions…
Artist’s Statement I wish to bridge the perceived gap between logical, materialistic analysis and intuitive, mystical experience. My directive as an artist is to engage and communicate the meaning that lies before our eyes, and yet we do not see. I attempt to point to the ‘numinous’, which is characterized by the quintessential qualities of…