![]() ![]() And it is similar with time, going back and forth. The film shows that on the large and small side there are scales that are hard to imagine even from one of these contemplation-inviting iconic chairs. Yes, the Eames were also the married couple and famous industrial designers of one of the most successful and beautiful chairs, called “the Eames” (other iconic chairs would be the Egg of Jacobsen, or a Pennsylvania Rocker). It ranged from the universe to the Planck length. The logarithmic frame reminds of a famous, if by now dated short film Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames. With a rudimentary mastery of it you may perplex an audience of detailists at a great saving of memorizing. It immerses you in the cadence of where we have been, and are headed. This gives stepwise pictures of unfolding states or periods, with increased attention to the present. The present table is in a power of ten exposure on either side of an arbitrarily chosen date, the CRISPR discovery (eg p0=10^0=1). ![]() Here I present a table for a yet more compact orientation in this long distance running with its eventual finish line at the Big Bounce (in essay 13, I used the Pacific Crest trail as a model for life, in which our eventual goal of the Big Bounce would have to be extended to Costa Rica). In this view, we are catalysts.īetween these overview essays, I have started filling in the detail, amounting to a going back in time of about 100 years as of my latest writing. Why would it do that? The short answer will be: it has this kinetic drive, so that it can accomplish its entropic mission faster. It is a history for the ages, of how the universe got to know about itself. This “it” motivates us to do things a certain way: it is existential savvy. It is about knowing how to do things and what our existence is about. My aim is to search for the origins of this unfolding, to talk about what is really important for us being slated for gaining knowhow that is. In previous essays (1, 2, 15) I ran overviews of “our” long history all the way to and from the Big Bounce. ![]()
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