Thoughts on the Nobel Prizes in Physics

[Star Man]

Thoughts upon the awarding of the Nobel in Physics announced today honoring the discoverer of dark matter and the two men who discovered exoplanets.

There may well be exoplanets where some sort of life thrives, but the residents of those planets will soon be alone in the universe because the residents of this planet Earth are destroying life here. How ironic. Just at the point when humans are beginning to understand the origins of the universe and finding planets orbiting other stars, we are murdering ourselves and our planet. Maybe this trajectory towards self destruction is unavoidable. Maybe only a culture destined for self-destruction can discover its origins. Maybe that explains why we haven't found other cultures.

Star Man
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I feel enormously sad knowing that the grand collective work of our civilization will soon be lost. There will be no one to thrill at the discoveries of physics, no one to weep at the paintings of Velazquez, no one to tremble at Billie Holiday singing "Dark Fruit." The scythe of extinction cuts a broad swath.

[Star Man]

There may well be exoplanets where some sort of life thrives, but the residents of those planets will soon be alone in the universe because the residents of this planet Earth are destroying life here. How ironic. Just at the point when humans are beginning to understand the origins of the universe and finding planets orbiting other stars, we are murdering ourselves and our planet. Maybe this trajectory towards self destruction is unavoidable. Maybe only a culture destined for self-destruction can discover its origins. Maybe that explains why we haven't found other cultures.

I feel enormously sad knowing that the grand collective work of our civilization will soon be lost. There will be no one to thrill at the discoveries of physics, no one to weep at the paintings of Velazquez, no one to tremble at Billie Holiday singing "Dark Fruit." The scythe of extinction cuts a broad swath.

In 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky released his film "El Topo" ("The Mole"). According to Jodorowsky the mole lives in darkness. He tunnels up and up and finally breaks through into the light and is blinded. El Topo is a metaphor for us humans. We have lived in our unconscious (the darkness) for eons and just in the last few hundred years we are breaking through into the light, and it appears from current events, we are blinded.

Star Man