Thread by @eversion

I think about this diagram a lot, but to my shame I didn't make a note of the source.

and the source is 'Eureka! Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe'... (thanks to @plindberg for going to look)

Perhaps the white space is defined by Koestler's 'Act of Creation'

Maybe this how Zaphod survived the Total Perspective Vortex, by seeing it on a logarithmic scale.

"...if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

Besides the canonic 'space is big' moment*, Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker is the only work of literature I can think of that has captured this diagram.

"The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe."

* shout out to @sevensixfive for that lovely turn of phrase in the opening pages of Space Forces

versobooks.com/books/3889-spa…

Alternatively, Everything:

davidoreilly.com/everything

The left hand side of that white space is possibly neurological quantum mechanics.

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Our model of the
cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A
complexity that includes not only duration but creation,
not only being but becoming, not only geometry but
ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to
ask the question. . ."

Went looking for the author, but sadly he passed away in 2015.

theguardian.com/science/2007/f…

This kind of works, doesn't it?

As a cross section of this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_con…

Actually, I was wrong to refer to future or past and the cone of light concept. Difficult not to think of velocity and therefore some notion of progress when considering space and time, but this is just a scale comparison.

It's the outer limits of empirical experience through the unaided senses that we all knock about in. Better to think about it in terms of duration and size. You could express weather and climate within it for example. Local and seasonal vs globally over a century.

And yes, since you ask, I have been losing sleep over this.

This week's #DrWho news has brought me back to this thread, wondering if the secret to the interior of the Time And Relative Dimension In Space was that it was designed on a log-log scale and this is the floor plan.

Hatching plans for a competition entry has given me cause to revisit an old one from 16 years ago. Amused at the realisation it had a layout charting time on one axis and experience on the other.

Formed from the silhouette of the lost Brighton pier, layers are added out to sea (time) and along the shore (topic), forming a grid of meeting spaces... 'I'll meet you at 1964/Mods'