The long view

 

1:00 AM

The long view, the attempt to look at the vastness of reality from a single point of view seems to be a fool's errand but not if you look at how creative people look at the world as creativity, at high level, is scale invariant. In this post, no color links, just musings as the number of giants showing why scale invariance holds true just makes a lot of sense.

The question is key. One must question before trying to answer and ... the question is always visual.

But a tiny, tiny snippet follows :)

What's it's like to ride alongside a beam of light? - Einstein. 

Songs in the key of life, visual to the max, written and performed by a blind man touching
the world with imagery most profound and beautiful - Stevie Wonder

Everything's information. It from Bit. Maybe Jonathan Wheeler was channeling
Walt Whitman while writing, in scientific term,s Whitman's poem I sing the Body Electric.

Swinging a cane back and forth while taking a walk brings AC to light - Tesla

Take my wife, please. Henny Youngman, the start point for Koestler's The Act of Creation

David coming out the marble by taking away the part that's not David - Michelangelo

The 7 Greek modes, the genesis for Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Calligraphy to explain, What is jazz? - Bill Evans

Information compressed to the ultimate giving rise to the ultimate complexity - Claude Shannon

Less is more - Dizzy Gillespie and Alan Turing

Call me Ismael - Melville

0 & infinity, complementarity rules - The Tao

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

And so it goes. -  K. Vonnegut

God must be a boogie man. -  Joni Michell