The tree of knowledge - Our wandering away from the Garden of Eden
byMieke Mosmuller
24-02-2016
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In ancient times Pythagoras described the sound of the cosmos as a harmony of the spheres, in relation to the arithmetic composition of the cosmos. He felt God as a Master Arithmetist and Geometrist. Johann Sebastian Bach became a master composer, he founded the technique of harmonies in fugues, and we can sense in them an abstract harmony of the spheres. Later, as the composing faculties became more guided by inspired fantasy, Richard Strauss composed a cosmic sound, the rising of the sun. Of course this,too, will not be how the sun sounds in the cosmic spaces, but it is the inspiration of an artist. In words it was said by Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote about cosmic sounds in Faust I, Prologue in Heaven:
RAPHAEL
The Sun sings out, in ancient mode,
His note among his brother-spheres,
And ends his pre-determined road,
With peals of thunder for our ears.
The sight of him gives Angels power,
Though none can understand the way:
The inconceivable work is ours,
As bright as on the primal day.
And Richard Strauss in his 'Sonnenaufgang':
Then came our technical epoch. Computers can be programmed so that they can transform waves into sounds, making it probable that these sounds really are to be heard in the cosmos - if we could come near to the cosmic processes.
I am not saying that I don't take this seriously, or that it wouldn't be interesting information. But we have to remain sober in our thinking and should not forget that these are sounds produced by computers, by an almost endless number of transformational steps; and we should also realise that the perceptive apparatus can only register what it is made for. So it could be that the human ear would hear something quite other than a computer. The human ear is a physically and physiologically perfect and living apparatus that cannot be imitated by science at all. So we have to stay calm and admit that sounds like this from a billion light-years away, and transformed by techniques into an audible sound, certainly would not sound like a trivial chirping ‘ping’. This is all apart from the fact that there is a cosmic sound.
I perceive the cosmos as a big smartphone now, that receives a message and gives note of it by a 'ping'...
A quote from the New York Times1:
'A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago. It completes his vision of a universe in which space and time are interwoven and dynamic, able to stretch, shrink and jiggle. And it is a ringing confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were the most foreboding (and unwelcome) part of his theory.
More generally, it means that a century of innovation, testing, questioning and plain hard work after Einstein imagined it on paper, scientists have finally tapped into the deepest register of physical reality, where the weirdest and wildest implications of Einstein’s universe become manifest.'
The quality of Einstein’s predicted waves, as they are described, is very familiar to someone who knows the true nature of human thought: space and time are interwoven, space becomes time and time becomes space,it becomes a dynamic whole, able to stretch, shrink and jiggle...
A black hole
1 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?_r=0
The tree of knowledge - Our wandering away from the Garden of Eden by Mieke Mosmuller
RAPHAEL
The Sun sings out, in ancient mode,
His note among his brother-spheres,
And ends his pre-determined road,
With peals of thunder for our ears.
The sight of him gives Angels power,
Though none can understand the way:
The inconceivable work is ours,
As bright as on the primal day.
And Richard Strauss in his 'Sonnenaufgang':
Then came our technical epoch. Computers can be programmed so that they can transform waves into sounds, making it probable that these sounds really are to be heard in the cosmos - if we could come near to the cosmic processes.
I am not saying that I don't take this seriously, or that it wouldn't be interesting information. But we have to remain sober in our thinking and should not forget that these are sounds produced by computers, by an almost endless number of transformational steps; and we should also realise that the perceptive apparatus can only register what it is made for. So it could be that the human ear would hear something quite other than a computer. The human ear is a physically and physiologically perfect and living apparatus that cannot be imitated by science at all. So we have to stay calm and admit that sounds like this from a billion light-years away, and transformed by techniques into an audible sound, certainly would not sound like a trivial chirping ‘ping’. This is all apart from the fact that there is a cosmic sound.
I perceive the cosmos as a big smartphone now, that receives a message and gives note of it by a 'ping'...
A quote from the New York Times1:
'A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago. It completes his vision of a universe in which space and time are interwoven and dynamic, able to stretch, shrink and jiggle. And it is a ringing confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were the most foreboding (and unwelcome) part of his theory.
More generally, it means that a century of innovation, testing, questioning and plain hard work after Einstein imagined it on paper, scientists have finally tapped into the deepest register of physical reality, where the weirdest and wildest implications of Einstein’s universe become manifest.'
The quality of Einstein’s predicted waves, as they are described, is very familiar to someone who knows the true nature of human thought: space and time are interwoven, space becomes time and time becomes space,it becomes a dynamic whole, able to stretch, shrink and jiggle...
The macrocosm finds its representation in the human microcosm. Cosmic thoughts are represented in human thoughts - not in the contents of thinking, though, but in the living activity of thinking - in which space and time are interwoven and dynamic, able to stretch, shrink and jiggle...
A black hole
1 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?_r=0
The tree of knowledge - Our wandering away from the Garden of Eden by Mieke Mosmuller
Comments
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From Gerheart Bandorf @Danke für das Blog!
In Abwandlung von Goethe:
Gewöhnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er Geräte schnarren hört,
Es müsse sich darin ein Wort als Schicksalspfand vernehmen lassen.
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Das was Zeit genannt wird, ist ja nichts anderes als eine Art projizierter Kunstgriff, so, wie es die Anwendung perspektivischen Konstruktion in einem Gemälde ist, welche die Illusion der Tiefe in der Zweidimensionalität hervorbringt. Die Gesamtheit des Tatens erscheint als Zeiten-Plan für das leibgebundene Denken. Im reinen, leibfreien Denken ist Zeit tätiges Wahrnehmen der Tätigkeit der Wahrnehmung(en). Und was den Raum betrifft, so ist er das gleichzeitige und nebeneinander Sein von Geistwesen, welches sich dem leibgebundenen Denken als ein physisches sich Ausbreiten darstellt, ganz gemäß dem, was der Mensch ja selbst ist: strebendes Entwickeln-wollen. Wen wundert es, daß man darauf kommt, Gravitationswellen zu entdecken?- denn wie soll sich der materialistische Mensch auch sonst seine als aufrecht empfundene Organisation (welche durch die Wirbelsäule als zentrale Statik repräsentiert ist) erklärlich machen, wenn er dazu nicht das Bild der Gravitationswelle erfindet. Es liegt ja vollkommen in der Entwicklung begründet, wenn auch unbewußt, mehr und mehr seines eigenen Wesens, hin in ein physikalisch-astronomisches Außerhalbiges projizierend zu externalisieren, um sich immer detaillierter als Wahrnehmender spiegeln zu können. -
From Margareta Bannmann @Die "unendliche Zahl von Schritten der Transformation", liebe Mieke, hat mich auch schon sehr lang beschäftigt. Es war dann sehr interessant, zu erfahren, dass es diesen errechneten Planetentönen noch andere gibt, die von der Archäologin Kathleen Schlesinger - ich glaube zu Rudolf Steiners Zeit - gefunden wurden aufgrund einer Flöte aus der pythagoräischen Zeit, die in diesen Tönen gestimmt war. Hast Du davon schon gehört? Jemand hat Stimmgabeln hergestellt auf dieser Basis, die ich kenne und auch habe. Sie klingen wirklich sehr besonders (auf A= 432 Hz gestimmt) in ihrer Abweichung von der wohltemperierten Stimmung. Das ist mit den Ohren hörbar - mit den physischen und mit den "Seelenohren".
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From Bevis Stevens @Margareta Bannmann: Schön von jemand anders über diesen Skalen zu hören. Ich habe mich viel damit beschäftigt und würde mich freuen auf einen Austausch. Mehr von mir kann auf youtube gefunden werden: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yWCg0l2QxtbE7A9uwIYRw
oder ein email auf stevens(at)eurythmy.co.nz -
From Theophil @Ist Jakob Böhmes Gedanke etwas ähnliches?
"Wem Zeit ist wie Ewigkeit und Ewigkeit wie Zeit ....." ?