I was introduced to the Library of Babel by a friend in mid-2022. It has since helped me frame my world view and to demonstrate it in a way others can understand.
- Babel Image Archives
- Space is static
- Atomic to cosmic, as above so below
- Anything and everything exists
Vision made possible through photons, light particles made up from electromagnetic waves. Beneath the physical, and beneath all atoms and particles, is energy.
Particles creating 'pixels' rendered in "real life", atoms grouping together to form diverse shapes, colours, sizes, combinations to be interacted with. Imagination and art. Vision.
Here is a visual painting to help illustrate the concept.
Image credits: Dan Hays
Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail)
2007, oil on canvas
A related phenomenon known as visual snow.
"Visual snow (VS) is a form of visual hallucination that is characterized by the perception of small, bilateral, simultaneous, diffuse, mobile, asynchronous dots usually throughout the entire visual field, but it can be partial, and it is present in all conditions of illumination, even with the eyes closed." ––Eyewiki
This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.
This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.
It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.
This image is too large to be easily displayed at full resolution and is best appreciated using the zoom tool. https://esahubble.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/
Credit:
NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.
If our cameras were advanced enough, it would zoom in infinitely.
If we could see all stars in the sky, it would look like this.(image) stars light is not visible to the human eye.
Atomic resolution electron microscopy
Atoms, pixels, stars, and static
AI and the future, AI feeding itself creating unlimited bizarre images and fusions of shape and colour. AI searching through the Babel Image Archives for images with meaning, AI being taught what has meaning and how to search for it among the static.
Akashic records
Dead Internet Theory
Pluto in Aquarius