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The view from the womb / Il lato ad ovest
When I noticed the white space beyond the Big Bang in this Hubble press release image, my imagination flared and I thought, "Ooh, now come to think of it, what would one find beyond that curve of spacetime?"
I stared at the gelatinous mass of galaxies, as it's depicted in the graphic... and then I flipped out. "Placenta! That's cosmic placenta! And we're inside of it!" The bulging shape that the artist chose to use just reinforced my notion. And then I remembered the image of a magician sticking his head out of the worldly sphere to stare into the vibratory expanse. The way that these three mental images/metaphors linked up was a trip, so I patched together the image below:
It took all day to find the last image -- "Peering through the cosmic sphere." It was after I made the ID here that I was able to finish this little juxtaposition... by which time I'd also slapped together the next two images.
So what kind of rims did they roll on in 15th century Italy?
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"Don't tread on me, either."
HST 1937-2005
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