Stars and Song

Thank you to Hubble. Not the person (although he deserves thanks in the field of Astronomy and physics) but the telescope. Every day I wake up to an astronomy picture of the day (see the link to the right in my blog) and over the years, the 1000's of pictures that I have in books, calendars and have seen on-line have helped to make my days more pleasant. Not because they are so wonderful to look at, but because somewhere, somehow, there was something beyond all of my conception that allowed this to exist in all of its' multidimensional glory. Wow. I consider the stars to be the visual of a Song - the Song of creation.

That Song of life pulses through everything - there is a deep rhythm that underlies the universe. Some scientists might consider it to be the vibration of a molecule, or perhaps the undulation of the strings in string theory. I look at it as music - Divine Music - the Song. These vibrant notes, beyond the ability of mere humans to hear, underlie all within the universe. And the Song is, in essence, Love. I think it was Dante who ended his Divine Comedy with the belief that it is the Eternal Spirit - Love - that moves the stars and causes them to dance and sing (paraphrased). So, through Hubble, we have all been privileged to see this divine dance and see the underlying Song. And now that Hubble has been fixed, upgraded, and released once more, we will again have the opportunity to see phenomena that were never dreamed of by our ancestors. Thanks are completely inadequate, but all that I can do. I look forward to many more years of inspiration and introspection brought about by the views from Hubble.