zaterdag 12 juli 2008

Dark Matter and the Churning of the Milky Ocean


Churning the Milky Ocean


The churning of the Ocean
of Milk was an elaborate process. Mount Mandaranchal was used as churning rod and Vasuki, the King of Serpents, became the churning rope. The gods held the tail of the snake while the demons (Asuras) held the head end of the snake and they pulled on it alternately causing the mountain to rotate which in turn churned the ocean. However, once the mountain was placed on the ocean, it began to sink. Vishnu in his second incarnation, in the form of a turtle Kurma, came to their rescue and supported the mountain on his shell back.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudra_manthan

Dark matter

For every kg of material made up from atoms like the ones we have in our bodies, or which make up the stars, there are up to 20kg of something completely different, whose principal quality is that it has never been actually observed directly by scientists.
Which is why they call it dark matter. But they know it is there because its effect on the movements of galaxies can be weighed.
It has been noted that the names "dark matter" and "dark energy" serve mainly as expressions of human ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with terra incognita.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

If 96% of the Universe is Terra Incognita, then maybe a story about the churning of the Ocean of Milk is just as valid as a Cosmology?

"The Universe does not exist out of
Atoms, It exists out of Stories"

Not only that wich we know or think we know does not exist as we think it does (and our ideas about it are constantly changing), but also that which knows is totally beyond comprehension. That wich is aware-ING and this words, 'atoms', energy and so on...are not two 'things'. It's the Unknowable Knowing the Unknowable. It's the Tao manifested and non-manifested, Being and Nothingness in a cosmic dance.



Or maybe God likes a cappuccino?

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