Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Silver Screen

This is the Silver Screen.  It's seen better days, or rather, it has been seen on better days.

It's like a bar code, or DNA code.

When I was a kid, I saw Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".  One episode he explains gravity.  By using a large flat plane of elastic fabric and rolling orbs of different sizes around the surface, he illustrated how the masses of great bodies exert pull on one another.  It had a profound effect on my perception of the universe around me.

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