Hullart.com Blog tagged 'Science'

A Pattern in the Universe - DNA and Matter

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0100

Scientists tell us that the amount of functional DNA in our genes is about 3% and matter represents about 4% of Space. So 3% of the genetic material in our cells is responsible for human kind. Four percent of Space is responsible for all of the matter. Does means that 97% of the genetic material and 96% of space remain relatively unknown and purposeless? What kind of pattern of reality does this perhaps suggest. Scientists focus on that part of [...]

Pyramids of Egypt and the Mystery of Size

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0100

One of the most interesting facts about the Egyptian Pyramids is the 'scale up and scale down' history of pyramid building. In just 60 years, based on historical accounts, the Egyptians went from a pyramid containing 330,000 cubic meters of material t0 one containing 2,600,000 cubic meters of material(Giza/ 4th Dynasty). In addition the complexity of construction progressed on a similar order. In the intervening time frame only two other pyramids were attempted and th [...]

NASA, Space and the New Direction for Development

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0100

I applaud Obama's new direction for space exploration. It provides NASA with a focus for its mission. It will also help to foster the development of the commercial Space Industry. It brings clarity that has been missing in the past. This will allow the creation of new captial investment in Space thus accelerating progress.

Clarity is one of the missions that I always thought was primary in realtion to an effective goverments role. People&nb [...]

Pyramids and the Power of Emptiness

jim@hullart.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0100

Lack of information, or emptiness, is one of the key precepts of Chinese aesthetics. It is the experience of having done the work of art that is important and not the work itself. Is that the case with the Pyramids? Was it more important to the builders to have done it than to have recorded the how and why? In the arts it is the undsaid that carries the energy through the piece. As Simon Leys relates in his book The Burning Forest,

" It should be observed [...]

The Mystery of Records and Purpose

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0100

" Extant Egyptian records, whether written or pictorial, throw no light on the methods employed by the builders of the pyramids either in planning or in constructing their monumental works."

So says I.E.S. Edwards in his famous book The Pyramids or Egypt. Logically this makes no sense. But whatever information they used to construct the pyramids on the Giza Plateau must also have been quickly lost as the preceding contructions reveal a lack of the same sophistication [...]

Ruins

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0100

We are all familar with the ruins of anitquity and many of these are captured in paintings on my site. The interesting thing is to ponder what the ruins of our current civilization will look like to those who will ponder them years from now. This idea is the beginning of a new group of paintings on the subject of ruins that I will be working on as a part of the new Burning Forest Series. Ruins of the past and ideas of ruins of the future will portray what I believe to [...]

Art and Religion

jim@hullart.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0100

Kandinsky wrote on the sprirtual in art. He said that in all ages their is a subjective outer esxpression that comes from an eternal inner objective need to create. While the outer expressions change from age to age the 'eternal inner spiritual objective' remains the same and is univeral for all. Stated a different way the eternal is one place and one thing for all people and all times. It is held in common and uses the outward subjective to point the way in each era. Is it not [...]

A New Direction for Space Art

jim@hullart.com — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:00:00 +0100

Historically space art has been focused on the lesser of the contents of space. It has almost exclsuively focused on the material aspects of the universe. The ironic thing is that these material aspcets only make up 4% of the visible universe. Why haven't we focused on the other 96%? Because the 4% is more obvious. It is easier to create a representation of material objects than suggest what may be the contents of the other 96%. This leads me to another supposition. If it i [...]

Logos and the Pyramids

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:00:00 +0100

The golden section to some has represented logos or the male reproductive action. According to Peter Tompkins, in his book on the Secrets of the Great Pyramid, it not only represents this but also the logos of the gospel of St. John. How did the Egyptians see the golden section and why is it embedded in the construction mathematics of the Great Pyramid? Why do paintings that use the golden section and othe works of art appeal? I think that it is embedded in our sense of beauty and reflects a key [...]

Sensory Deprevation or Burial Chamber

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:00:00 +0100

Having visited the Kings Chamber in the great pyramid I must admit that it first appears to be more of a sensory deprivation chamber than a place of burial. The Egyptian culture was focused on how the interior life manifested itself in outward actions. Therefore I would not be surprised if these chambers, which we know were used for initiation rights, were also used by the priests to help their royal counterparts reach a deeper level of inner being. A level were a [...]

Something More

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:00:00 +0100

The philosphical scientists that existed in the 1930's at Cambridge had a belief that in addition to the phenonemon that was apparent to our five senses there existed that whcih could only be felt intuitively. They called this the 'Somehting More'. I believe that this is what C.S. Lewis was referring to in his many writings as the desire that we all have for something which has not appeard in our ordinary existence. He called it the Secret. As he s [...]

Matter or Space

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Why do we spend so much of our time exploring the material aspects of space when they represent so little of the Universe? I think it is because the variety and evolution of the material part of the universe is evident to our five senses. But if all is an integrated whole then one could hypothesize that space(the void) too has more variety and is evolving although beyond our limited sensory perception. Perhaps the 'void' is m [...]

Extra-solar Planet and the Quest for Life Beyond our Planet

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0100

An astronomy group this week found evidence of Methane and Water on a Planetary Gas giant some 60+ light years from earth. While they were excited to be able to detect such evidence they reported that it is a gas giant planet and as such could not harbor life. I disagree. Look at the evidence of life living in high extreme environments found on earth in recent years. One would have to at least stay open to the fact that life may exist(perhaps even in other forms) in harsh environments. I further [...]