The face of evil?
That may have gotten your attention, even if should have been written as
the "facelessness of evil" -- and hey, don't assume that this depiction
is a wild "stretch" of the imagination, as in:
Entropy = Evil = the Void = Eridanus
... but even if it is a stretch, it is a scary and mysterious
billion-light-year river-dance stretch, nonetheless.
And, yes, the MIB are perhaps already hard at work to trying to hide the
implications, or else to put a new spin on them. Where is Author-Arthur
when we need him?
Eridanus is the sixth largest of the 88 constellations in the night sky.
Notably it borders on Orion, which almost every star-gazer recognizes
instantly.
Even more notably in the Science Press, is the discovery therein of the
"Void":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6962185.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/24/scihole124.xml
This is actually a major discovery and a major new cosmological anomaly,
which has been there all-along - yes, but hidden by a veil of closer stars.
Obviously, without a detailed 3-D survey of the sky, any such "void"
would have been seen from earth back in antiquity; that is, if not
hidden by stars in the foreground, which is the case.
This void in space measures a billion light-years across and is empty of
normal matter and "dark matter". The "hole" is located in the direction
of the Eridanus constellation and has been identified in data from a
microwave survey of the sky.
Do not confuse this "feature" (or lack thereof?) with the recent story
of cosmological "Censorship in Google Sky?" ... or maybe it is another
aspect of that.
In that story someone found a blacked out area in the new Google Earth
Sky, where stars "should be" shown. This find was posted by 'ZhingHong'
in the new GE Sky Forum at the Google Earth Community.
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/08/censorship_in_google.html
One theory ;-) which is going-around is that an alien controller, maybe
Valis and using the MIB as agents, or maybe it is Satan himself, has
forced Google to censor this area in order to hide secrets from
unwitting citizens. Someone else posited that the black spot is where
the repositioned monolith from "2001: A Space Odessey" now resides.
Anyway, getting back to real science, NASA has finally mapped all the
sky via CMB - Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, which is all around
us in space, except for this one spot. You simply cannot map something
that isn't there.
Prior to the 3-D survey, astronomers did realize that Eridanus is poor
in "deep-sky objects" but that was just a hint of things to come. Here
is an example of the older information:
http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/eridanus/
What is the cause of the void, and is there any effect?
There is one star in Eridanus which may offer a clue, but it is far from
the void itself. At the end of Phaethon's river, as seen from earth, is
the first magnitude star Achernar, the "flattest" star known in the
Milky Way, and itself a great anomaly. Its radius is about 50% larger at
the equator than at the poles. Responsible for this oblong symmetry is
the fact that Achernar is spinning unimaginably fast: A void effect? or
is that an avoidable conclusion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achernar
How could a star in our own galaxy tell us anything about a void which
exists far beyond our "space"? Yes - Achenar is aligned in the correct
direction today, from our perspective, but does that mean anything?
Not unless the alignment is fixed across time, going back billions of
years ... which probably means that Achenar does not mean anything,
unless it has an extra-dimensional link to the void...
...but it is fascinating to surmise a direct connection in which many of
these features of the night sky tell us something about our own
contrived morality (or lack thereof) -- or at best, tell us something
aobut a human brain which operates to make connections, even when none
are there. The brain avoids-the-void like ... something real smelly.
...and so Stéphane starts working through the possibilities for hidden
connections, coming up with a theory he calls PSR, “Parallel
Synchronized Randomness.” PSR is an interesting brain rarity and our
subject for today. Two people walk in opposite directions at the same
time and then they make the same decision at the same time. Then they
correct it, and then they correct it, and then they correct it, and then
they correct it, and then they correct it. Basically, in a mathematical
world these two little guys will stay looped for the end of time.
The brain is the most complex thing in the universe and it's right
behind the nose...
Jones
