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Stars and Earth

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We live between the endlessly large and the endlessly small. What exists in the expanse of the universe has correspondences in the micro world. It is as if the stars were moments of a larger being which cannot be seen in its totality, just as an ant cannot recognise an elephant. Delving into the micro-world it turns out that the apparent “things” we know are arrangements of objects in force fields separated by “nothingness”. Concreteness is an illusion.

The relationship between the stars and the Earth has been theorised throughout history. Egyptian pyramids were built modelled on star constellations, creating a correspondence between the night sky and the Earth. Aborigines represented constellations on sandstone platforms.

In modern cities, most stars are invisible. The inhabitants live in the illusion of finite space, which convinces them that their own doings and their world of “real objects” is all there is. The context of life, in its small and large dimensions, is blocked out of perception.

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