natural fuels. • The big question is: WHAT SHOULD MAN BE DOING HERE IN UNIVERSE? WHAT IS MAN DOING HERE IN UNIVERSE? Norbert Weiner and Cybernetics One idea of how to function comes from Norbert Weiner. • He came to the conclusion, "that man is the most important anti-entropic functioner in the universe," about the same time I did. • The earth is a small spaceship. • The equator speeds around at 1000 miles and hour and • The whole planet speeds around the sun at a speed of a million miles a day. • The rim speed of rotation of our galaxy is tremendous and • the speed of the whole galaxy traveling through space is phenomenal. Non-simultaneity • Non-simultaneity means that this room, all radiations, all atomic frequencies are non simultaneous. • There is no logical, composite picture of anything. • There is no inherent associability. • Some of the stars you "see" are in your stomach. All words are attempts to tell experience • but like universe you can take all words and make coherent sentences. • There is no ideal moment, no instantenaiety. • Thought is small field differentiation. • How fast (much) are the total patterns tied in local knots so that they appear static. • On earth (spaceship) it means getting supplies. The Red Shift • Harlow Shapley is associated with the red shift. • Red glow at night is bending of light. • We now know we have an expanding universe because we discovered the red shift far away. • Like the childhood tension experience where we discover that tension straightens while compression curls things up. What is Generalization in Science?

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