Brian Thomas Swimme
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“I was the colossal sphere. All of us were. We were rooted in the cosmic microwave radiation. We were”
― Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
― Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
“a universe expanding in all directions. A universe expanding in all directions will stretch out all the waves of light coming from the galaxies. Hubble was experiencing this directly. He had found himself in the midst of these stretched-out waves as would be the case in an ever-widening universe. In one silent, thunderous instant, the developing universe surfaced in Hubble’s mind. He had knitted together observations and calculations. The songs of galaxies the farthest away were singing in the lowest octaves. He, and he alone, was experiencing this. Because the universe is expanding. He must have repeated that phrase over and over. He repeated it over and over because he was torn in two different directions. Out of habit, he perceived change as something that happened to objects in the universe. But the data were whispering a truth radically different. They were suggesting that the universe as a whole was changing. Light from the more distant galaxies was stretched to lower frequencies because galaxies were rapidly expanding away. The experience was breaking apart structures of his mind, transforming his understanding of his placement in the universe. In my imagined reconstruction of the event, Hubble next positioned the Hooker Telescope so that he could view, at the same time, two different galaxies. One of them ten times as far away as the other. Checking his data, he found that the distant one was expanding away from him ten times as fast.”
― Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
― Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
“When Father Thomas returned from his trip to Chicago at Matthew Fox’s institute . . .” She looked at me in the dark. “Yes?” I said. “Several of us noticed a change. I asked him about the trip, but he didn’t wish to speak of it. This was unusual. He always enjoyed regaling us with stories”
― Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
― Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
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