Science – New Research Suggests Dark Energy Might be the Reason Time Runs Forward

By williamricci | February 18, 2018

Perhaps travelling back in time will become part of our reality, if has not already happened.

“It’s one of those things that we take for granted—time moves forward and never backward. But did you ever stop to wonder why it moves in one direction, as opposed to the other? The question continues to stump physicists. After all, there are certain physical processes that are actually time-reversible—they look the same no matter which way you run them.”

Full article: https://futurism.com/new-research-suggests-dark-energy-might-be-the-reason-for-times-arrow/

Science – Understanding A 10 Dimensional Universe

By williamricci | February 18, 2018

A summary of the proposed 10-dimensional universe and theory suggests at each. Full article is here: https://futurism.com/understanding-10-dimensional-universe/

First dimension – length
Second dimension – height
Third dimension – depth
Fourth dimension – time
Fifth dimension – we would see a world slightly different from our own that would give us a means of measuring the similarity and differences between our world and other possible ones.
Sixth dimension – we would see a plane of possible worlds, where we could compare and position all the possible universes that start with the same initial conditions as this one.
Seventh dimension – you have access to the possible worlds that start with different initial conditions.
Eighth dimension – again gives us a plane of such possible universe histories, each of which begins with different initial conditions and branches out infinitely.
Ninth dimension – we can compare all the possible universe histories, starting with all the different possible laws of physics and initial conditions.
Tenth and final dimension, we arrive at the point at which everything possible and imaginable is covered.

Image credit: Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

Poem – Origins

By williamricci | February 17, 2018

I watch an airplane across the evening sky,
diminishing light as the sun is leaving.

Still trees reach toward the heavens,
as blackness envelops the landscape.

Layers transform across the spectrum
scattering particles reaching these human eyes.

What is out there beyond the layers,
beyond the limitations of distance and speed?

Further I sink into the night
as the moon and stars take over.

Deep breath releases a hazy fog
and when cleared, the origin stretches out before me.

If Jackson Pollock was a photographer – #13

By williamricci | February 17, 2018

I imagine one his photographs might look like this:

In Remembrance of Johann Johannsson

By williamricci | February 11, 2018

On 10-FEB-2018, Icelandic musician and film score composer Jóhann Jóhannsson passed away at the young age of 48. Words are still failing to describe the atmospheres his music created and the depths in which I would be lost within them. I was able to attend two concerts that came through MN over the years and must now be content with their lasting impressions.

6/30/2009 at the Southern Theatre
5/8/2010 at The Cedar

Of the 15 albums and musical scores I have had the privilege of listening to, these are my favorites and ones that provide inspiration when writing or putting an end to the day.

And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees
Arrival
Englaborn
Orphee
The Theory of Everything

More information and complete music catalog is on the official website at: http://www.johannjohannsson.com

Poem – That Cabin in the Woods

By williamricci | February 10, 2018

That cabin in the woods,
nestled beneath second generation pine
planted after the last logging,
waits for our visit.

Snow caught in tree-tops
meanders through the winter sky
covering the green roof in a smooth
slope where acorns speed to the ground.

Ravens ever present toward the open fields,
near the old silo base, they rule the open sky
with acrobatics and voices blanketing
the otherwise quiet space.

The nest in the overhang now empty.
Somewhere deep in the woods they watch
with caution and curiosity as the dogs
run circles around that cabin in the woods.

Poem – Witnessing Time

By williamricci | February 4, 2018

Deep into the frozen land we venture.

Holding hands with no words spoken.

Miles away mountain shadows grow as the sun appears.

Like old film stuttering and jumping we desperately hold to this place to this moment.

Fading between gusts of wind we taste the other side the other world the other dimension some might say.

Existing between worlds we see what will come or what has passed.

Snow Day and Coyotes

By williamricci | February 3, 2018

New snow and we walked the nearby trail. Just the 3 of us through untouched paths and into the open fields. There Vinny found a cleared spot with a meal stored neatly, most likely part of a coyote homestead.