Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life!

We are the universe become aware!  BTW, Sagan was one of my idols growing up.  Own all his books...he was truly inspired.

He may have been inspired but his idea for Jodie Foster’s character to travel to Vega in the book and movie Contact via a black hole was totally screwed up. Fortunately Kip Thorne convinced him that wouldn’t work out too well.

@geoffkait

Agreed. It is frustrating in a way. May be Carl just got carried away by his enthusiastic dreams. We are aware of our universe and billions of galaxies but nevertheless at our current level of understanding we can only watch and appreciate but never touch any. Trapped like a spec of dust carried by the wind. We are like tears in the rain. Synchronicity expresses that connectedness, wonder and sadness.

“There’s a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall, is my soul up there?”

Wave theory of particles and quantum physics expresses it too - but so far our understanding is that the only form of physical connectedness exists at the atomic level. Like the single electron that somehow goes through both of two holes at the same time.

Gravity seems to suggest a force acting over great distance or is it simply our incorrect representation of space-time that necesssitates a construct called gravity to explain observations in our Cartesian view: much like other fictitious forces such as centrifugal force - your frame of reference demands these constructs but do they actually exist?

The rabbit hole goes as deep as you can go and always deeper....

BTW - if you want some mind blowing stuff check out Sir Fred Hole and his theories on life being everywhere. Despite Fred’s  hypothesis not having been fully fleshed out and likely still full of holes, the concept is not without an undeniable logic. It starts in tradition of Copernicus by challenging the logic “why did life start only on earth in a random way in a primordial soup?” - probabalisticly life is much more likely to happen if it could have happened anywhere in the much larger Petri dish of the entire universe. 

It sounds to me like many of the contributors hear have consumed quantities of mind altering substances and that accounts for the confused, disoriented, juvenile imaginings hear!

It sounds to me like many of the contributors here have consumed quantities of mind altering substances and that accounts for the confused, disoriented, juvenile imaginings here!

LOL. Confused. Disoriented. Yes.

Hardly Juvenile though.

Music is far from a juvenile pursuit even though it definitely starts that way with nursery rhymes.