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Archive for September, 2005

Autumn is here.

September 19th, 2005, 15:59 | posted by NS | category: Other

Went out photographing yesterday. It rained somewhat, and the chilly wind brought vibrant feelings of autumn; the contrast of chill and warmth, rain and moisture, mushrooms and the orange blaze of maple leaves. At this time of the year I’m always convinced that autumn is my favourite season. Most inspiring.

I booked the studio for the Equinox night in order to complete the recordings for the fabled Escape from Heaven, the album I’ve been (on and off) working on since the year 2000. After that, it’ll need the usual post-production and mixing battles, but once you manage to ride the beast you don’t need to tame it to reach a destination… though you might find yourself from some place else compared to your original plans, but such is the nature of the process sometimes. Needless to say I feel this is the strongest material I’ve laid my hands on since don’t know when. Even the oldest parts that come from years ago feel fresh and relevant.

A fanboy’s note to self:
I predict the forthcoming Fields of the Nephilim album, Mourning Sun, to arrive here simultaneously with the first snow. The album seems to suggest ice, snow, winter… Ice Age, the one gone or the one to come? Perhaps both, considering the multi-layered depth of previous Nephilim/Nefilim works such as Zoon or Elizium. Anyway it’s one of the highly anticipated things here in the NeitherSphere recently.

Ten-dimensional universe

September 16th, 2005, 15:58 | posted by NS | category: Other

Some brain food while hands and tentacles are busy elsewhere…

PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
Number 745 September 15, 2005 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein

WHY DO WE RESIDE IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE?
Andreas Karch (University of Washington) and Lisa Randall (Harvard) propose to explain why we live in three dimensions and not some other number. Currently, the popular string theory of matter holds that our universe is actually ten-dimensional, including, first of all, the dimension of time, then the three “large” dimensions we perceive as “space,” plus six more dimensions that are difficult to see, perhaps because they are hidden in some way. There is reason to believe, therefore, that our common 3D space is but a portion of some membrane or “brane” within a much more complicated higher-dimensional reality. Specifically, Karch and Randall address themselves to the behavior of three-dimensional force laws, including the force of gravity. Having several dimensions rolled up is one way to explain why gravity if so weak. Another view, pioneered by Randall and Raman Sundrum, holds that if gravity is localized on a 3D defect in the larger multi-dimensional universe and if spacetime is sufficiently warped, then the other spatial dimensions might be large after all. But why is our “local gravity” apparently a 3D defect in a 10D universe? Why not a 4D defect or some other dimensionality? In the present paper, Karch and Randall show that the cosmic evolution of the 10D universe, involving a steady dilution of matter, results in spacetime being populated chiefly by 3D and 7D branes. Several versions of string theories require the existence of 3D and 7D branes; indeed, the particles that constitute matter—such as quarks and electrons—can be considered open strings with one end planted on a 3D brane and the other end planted on a 7D brane. (Karch and Randall, Physical Review Letters, upcoming article )

MooPica update

September 2nd, 2005, 1:12 | posted by NS | category: Other

MooPica graphic design site got updated with some record covers etc. that I’ve done recently. More to come in the future…

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