science_and_art reviuquer In the end, all science is art. Oscar Wilde, as a character speaking in Moises Kaufman's 1997 play "Gross Indecency": "Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them, and more, in a free sphere of ideal existences." Julian Barbour "The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics" (2000): "... unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics may well spell the end of time... We shall come to see that time does not exist. Though still only a prospect on the horizon, this ...could well be the next revolution..." 000326 ... . . 050323 ... mp21k ... 050324 ... That * 123 * Einstein_is_just_a_'student', in the eye of the Cosmos- Flat_Universe... 050324 ... z 24: i think that take is too goal oriented. inside your world is my world as a subset that is abstracted to a degree that allows you to manage the differences. you cherry pick the portions of my reality (read as world view) that synch with aspects of the universe you have constructed. you reject the rest as meaningless and therefore relegated to the area that you reserve for untruth or the product of irrational and faulty perception and reasoning. i am concurrently doing the same, with just as much conviction that the universe is as i perceive it. the overlapping subset in our shared experience that we call truth is our consensual reality. it is the logical product of imperfect perceptual and cognitive systems that can not ever deliver completely matching results. i believe that most art comes from the awareness that there is a plastic topology to this boundry between self and other or self and universe. we stain it with aesthetic dye to study its form, function and dynamic nature. from: consensual_reality 040312 050324 ... kx21 biocosmology... 050324 ... no irony here... damn. you boys are deep seriously ... 050611 ... Critic Everyone seems to want whatever they do to be considered 'art'. Thus we must find a new word to apply to works of spiritually transcendental significance. 081124 what's it to you? who go blather from