Danbury, CT
in front of promised patio and at home
Wednesday 2013-10-16
Space galore
Space is a word for outer space
way way OUT there over over there,
that which is IN-BETWEEN ‘things’
the spread of nothingness that allows identity.
Way way all around – nothingness ‘seen’ as a spreading between:
celestial objects – galaxies, stars, planets, moving rocks
our moon in orbit back to view our mother earth
our daily lives – every ‘object’ to each and every other ‘object’
human fingers squeezed to very very tight, solid rocks squished in
within matter – atoms to atoms within molecules
within atoms – between the cores of electrons, protons, neutrons
within each or these cores, additional smaller cores are spread
Space as a concept for things far far away.
Space as an experience in our daily lives
– it gives function and form to things.
Space that is embedded inside object we know
– an unknown amount and taken for granted.
As a measure of how little CORE-STUFF is left
after all space is squeezed out an ‘object’
Something familiar and of substantial size could serve as an example
In New York City, the Empire State Building
– all 1450 feet of it ( 102 floors )
compress compress it till all the air is out
and the materials lie flat on the ground
compress compress and keep compressing till
all the space of all materials is out
What is left?
Something the size of a grain of rice
A very very heavy “grain of rice”
Hundreds of millions pounds
What is space is a very very large question.
For now, just to know
if the space between the stars has the same properties as the properties of the space that just left the compressed Empire State Building.
David of Danbury