Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Awesome

"All we can say for certain is that 13.7 billion years ago something happened and we don't exactly know what."

Neil Turock, Cosmologist

"Something unknown is doing something we don't understand."

Arthur Eddington, Physicist

Mystery. Glory.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i love this harry. my husband (a scientist before he discovered his passion for his creativity) always said how much he could never get away from the fact that scientists could only break an atom down so far. but at the end of the process they were left with an 'energy' they couldn't define!

Harry Riley said...

bea - I think I'd get on very well with your husband. I've followed almost exactly the same course, and in fact see no separation at all between the two.

At the most fundamental level, science and creativity are one and the same.

As you go sub-atomic, matter disappears into 'probability fields' and quantum events. Energy flitting in and out of existence, recreating itself continuously. Continuous Creativity through Discontinuity!:D

Thrills me to the core of my being!

Even more than the BLT I've just demolished for my 'second breakfast';)

andy said...

i'd happily demolish a BLT right now too!

Harry Riley said...

A kindred spirit:) Cheers, Andy!