a new way of thinking about time and space ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ by Rob Bryanton
--author and research scientist David Jay Brown says: "one of the most brilliantly-conceived and mind-stretching books that I've ever encountered".
--science fiction author Greg Bear says: "a fascinating excursion into the multiverse - clear, elegant, personal and provocative"
In his great book "I Am a Strange Loop", Douglas Hofstadter used video feedback as one of the visualization tools for picturing how something as deceptively simple as a self-referential "loop" can create something as subtle and complex as consciousness. The fact that this is very similar to the "self-excited loop" that esteemed physicist John Wheeler used to describe the quantum observer creating and refining a universe through the act of observation - not just in the future but in previously indeterminate elements of the past as well! - is most certainly more than a coincidence: both are easily related concepts.
Over the last few months I have been using various video feedback tricks as visualization tools for a number of concepts related to this project: the flipbook universe, time as a direction, flatlanders and linelanders, quantum tunneling, higher dimensional patterns and waves that create our 4D reality... we've played with all those concepts in the video blogs created for this project.
So here this time, just for fun, is a compendium of some of the video feedback and video kaleidoscope blogs that have been created for this project. I hope you enjoy them! The Big Bang and the Big Pie
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