Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Hello, all -

I'm a retired engineer/scientist sort with a fondness for haiku & photography (they're both essentially the same thing, after all). Currently a member of another artists' site that's shutting down, & looking for someplace else to set up camp. I saw some familiar names & faces here, & thought, Why Not?

Please bear with me as I suss out my new surroundings & mess around with settings until I know what I'm doing.

Sasha! Nice to see you. Welcome! Enjoy.

It's Sasha! Excellent appearance. Enjoy this wonderful site!

Hi Doreen & Judih! Nice to have a few friends already seated as I take my place at the table. Please pass the pancakes...

Looks like a nice place with a lot to offer. I hope I can do my part.

Welcome! I am new here also ,it is a wonderful sight, folks are friendly and creative. I

welcome to S8....a great place to share ideas and passion...a surrogate family of folks trying to humbly say something....trying to make a dent in the collective expressions of artistic communication....glad you came by

leafsailors ghost wrote:Welcome! ...

saw wrote:welcome to S8... ....glad you came by

Thank you both for your welcome. I hope my contributions will be enjoyed!

Welcome to S8.....

sasha - great to nudge into you again...often enjoyed reading you and your insights....I identify with your untypical blend of art & science, being an industrial chemist myself, also with an avid interest in the sciences; and how they can, in ways, correlate with artistic expression and human emotionality, from agony to ecstasy and every emote in between...

wylde, good to see your byline again! Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, science doesn't have to be cold & bloodless (though it's too often taught that way) - it should be exciting & passionate, arousing the imagination through the discovery of unexpected connections. It was almost a religious epiphany to derive Kepler's Laws from nothing more than Newton's law of gravitation... like finding God's footprints... hearing the music of the spheres... reading the poetry of differential equations...

goosies.

and how newtonian; relativity and quantum mechanics do not contradict each other but entirely dovetail...well for me. as well as correlate and calibrate in the human emotional realm. well, again, for me I feel that. and personally would frame the ephinany in spiritual rather than religious contexts. but I totally get your metaphor.
the realm of matters.

thanks for the nourishing short exchange sasha.

Spiritual vs religious, yes - I was alluding to (G)od metaphorically, or perhaps in the Deist sense - as a vast, diffuse universal presence rather than a cranky Judeo-Christian patriarch peevishly smiting when not begetting. That moment of revelation was so stunning it still gives me goosebumps to relate it. It was the realization that for all its chaotic messiness, there was still order to be found in our cosmos. The natural world needn't be full of dragons - it just Is What It Is, ands has become the core of my spirituality - that I am only a tiny Me in an infinity of Them, but part of the family nonetheless. I actually speak to certain trees on my woodlot, for they are my brothers and cousins, connected by the thread of Being - or perhaps by a life-force field, like the Higgs, that runs through/defines all living forms... Whatever. It assures me that it is enough to simply Be - and to Be simply.

fully understood.

never believe atoms; they make up everything.
the every smallest particles holding the most vast amounts of energy.


the atom. nucleus with electons orbiting. solar system - nuclei sun; orbital planets.
the blue planet about 75% water; the human body about 75% water.
"god" playing marbles?
black wholes (sic) far far more than nothing.
for every action. and equal and opposite...etc

just musing.

btw.

ever seen a video from all the space missions of the earth rotating? well might be, need to check for myself.

but. the earth is definitely bipolar!!

From a few years back, when a cabling issue contaminated neutrino time-of-flight measurements at CERN, making it appear they were traveling faster than light:

The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve superluminal particles here."

A neutrino walks into a bar.

Guess you had to be there. Or maybe be there tomorrow.

Another of my favorites:

A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician staking out an empty house observe a couple entering it. Nine months later, they see 3 people emerge.

The biologist assumes that, while in the house, the couple reproduced.

The physicist dismisses the observation as experimental error.

The mathematician concludes that if 1 person were now to enter the house, it would again be empty. (rimshot, please)

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