galactic thoughts

lately at night my thoughts are brought to the big bang, the galaxy as a whole, and how we as a society think we know much more then we really do.

what we can currently see is just a minute section of what is actually out there.

a person
our family
our town
our state / province
our country
our continent
our planet
our solar system
Our Galaxy (The Milky way)
Our Universe 
Multiverse?


supposedly this all started with all matter packed extremely dense into on single point.  or one place, before the existence of anything at all.

Lots of people have seen the power point demos, videos, and presentations of just how small we are in the larger sense when you compare our star (The Sun) to other stars, and our Milky way galaxy to other galaxies that we have observed.

All of this smashed into the one place no space, no time... just matter.  often referred to as Time T=0
this suggests we are all here as a result of something out of nothing.

expanding universe theory
cyclicle universe (expanding an contracting)

All of this we think we know from what we have observed and measured. in the stars, through telescopes, etc..

Where I live in Texas the ground swells and shrinks with the seasons and i can easily observe and measure changes that take place in my own backyard.  A simple example of this would be to go sink a stake in the ground at a random spot in the yard and take measurements form a corner of my house.  From this I will find that the measurements will vary, possibly by season, and surely on a yearly time frame.

using this example I can learn a few things. and make some hypotheses from, but rather I like to raise more questions, did the stake move?  did my starting point of my measurement (the corner of the house) move?  Has there been an elevation change?  how much did it rain this month / season / year.

will any of these questions lead me to a true cause of why the stake moved?  most likely it's a combination of the all of the questions I have, and many more....  grass growth can move objects, etc...

The point in all this is that all of the measurement we take of the stars today as well as other objects in the sky that we observe.

The sum of all of this is that we DO NOT KNOW what is out there, and what is happening out there, or the cause of everything we observe today.  No matter how much I measure, observer and find answers to quesitons there will always be something we did not observe, measure, calculate.

Michio kaku ~

"Nature is smarter then we are"

Failing

Taking risks and failing is a part of growing and succeeding at whatever you do in life.  Sometimes when I start something new the fear of failing doesn't bother me at all, or it doesn't crop up into my mind, which is a good thing because if you let this fear control your decision to not try you have failed before you even started.

What i'm realizing is that I need to allow myself to fail more often in order to grow and succeed.

You can't define someone as a failure who tries and fails one time at something, most people will fail at there first attempt to accomplish a new task.  This is one of the reasons why I enjoy climbing so much, failure breeds success, it drives you to try again, and again until you are successful.  This is what truly defines a winner, someone who prevails through failure to succeed in the end.

Check out my other blog, our house may be going on the market soon.

http://541longshore.blogspot.com

You can find pictures, (which I'm adding daily), information and other good stuff about our home as well as about the town of Little Elm, Tx

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Who Are You?

Sometimes I can loose sight of who I am.

I am not my job.
I am not my hobbies.
I am a father.
A husband.
A human being.

but that is still not who I am.  Maybe someday I will figure it all out, but for now...

 I'll just have to be me.

Making connections

Recently I watched this video which is mostly uneventful but you can see the excitement of the artist when he listens to "some random guy"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjc1nOHwlc 

what interests me the most about this is the randomness of the connection made between two artists (deadmau5) and (Chris James).

Here is the sound cloud link that Chris James Sent to deadmau5 http://soundcloud.com/chrisjamesofficial/deadmau5-theveldt-vocal-mix

Alone the instrumental track is somewhat interesting, it's calm, kind of sad or melancholic in nature, but also repetitive.  The vocals compliment the instrumental track so much it evokes emotional feelings in me.  Maybe it's because I also read the short story by Ray Bradbury (which can be found here http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm) and that as a parent I can relate to the story.

The Veldt

A Short story by Ray Bradbury.

A musical interest I have composed a piece of music inspired by this short story, it's an interesting story and if you've never heard of it you should google it and do some more reading.  To me music is about creating an emotion, a feeling that the audience might get while listening, or it can be about conveying an idea or thought

Happy life, full of machines all around the room.
look what they made, they made it for me, happy technology.
So in love with the way we are, here.