Susan Howe, The Quarry, New Directions, New York, NY, 2015, Pp. 205-206

8/17/2024

Waxing Gibbous Moon over North Carolina

It is easy to create an interstellar radio message which can be recognized as emanating unambiguously from intelligent beings. A modulated signal (‘beep,’ ‘beep-beep,’ . . . ) comprising the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, for example, consists exclusively of the first 12 prime numbers—that is, numbers that can be divided only by 1, or by themselves. A signal of this kind, based on a simple mathematical concept, could only have a biological origin. . . . but by far the most promising method is to send pictures.

Dr Prof Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan also wrote under the pseudonym Mr X

12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns. (Getty Museum)

“Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”

— Diane Ackerman, “Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)” (via misswallflower)

” The Formula of Love “

 ” ( ∂ + m ) ψ = 0 “

Dirac equation in quantum physics that defines :

” If two systems interact with each other for a certain period of time and then are separated , can no longer be described as two distinct systems , but in some way , they become a single system. In other words , what happens to one of them continues to influence the other , even if light-years away kilometers”.

Edward Robert Hughes, Night with her Train of Stars

Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed by Louis Valentin (1970)