Okazaki Castle
12-07-2006, 12:55 PM
I'm quite pleased with the DNA nebula which I made using Power-of-God:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4946/dnanebulabasiccc5.jpg
It is intended to demonstrate the Hermetic Alchemical Principle of 'As above, so below' and also the principle of 'As within, so without'. Also, I think it fairly indisputably demonstrates the connection of DNA with space, and the motion of space, and so of Time (which is the motion of space). Or at least, for the more traditionally scientific minded amongst you, it pictorially represents the DNA process and parameters on a rather huge canvas... for presumably no higher purpose than to give us all a pretty light show through our telescopes (which would be a very possible hypothesis in this if God was a charming woman, like Venus, for example...)
In infrared the DNA nebula can be seen a bit more clearly I think, and looks like this:
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1773/dnanebulairnk9.jpg
The proposed scientific explanation given for this, ie more in their terminology, is as follows:
The cosmic double helix is probably made up of clouds of ionized dust hovering around a pair of magnetic field lines, Morris (lead author of the paper: Subscription Required) said, and a wave traveling up the field lines from the center of the galaxy created the twisting double helix shape.
Morris hypothesizes that the wave traveling up the magnetic field lines and creating the double helix nebula is a disk of gas at its base, made to spin by the gravity of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. The double strands of the nebula are created by the dumbbell-like structure of the spinning disk, which concentrates the magnetic field lines in two areas, he said—otherwise, the nebula would be cylindrical.
As to its discovery by humans and some details on it:
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed an astonishing double helix shaped nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers, writing in Nature, estimate the nebula to be around 80 light years in length and situated only 300 light years away from the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
The DNA shaped nebula stunned the astronomers involved. "We see two intertwining strands wrapped around each other as in a DNA molecule," said Mark Morris, a UCLA professor of astronomy, and lead author of the report. "Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm. Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas. What we see indicates a high degree of order."
Morris believes that the magnetic field at our galaxy's center is responsible for the intriguingly shaped nebula. "We know the galactic center has a strong magnetic field that is highly ordered and that the magnetic field lines are oriented perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy," Morris explained. "If you take these magnetic field lines and twist them at their base, that sends what is called a torsional wave up the magnetic field lines. You can regard these magnetic field lines as akin to a taut rubber band. If you twist one end, the twist will travel up the rubber band," he added.
More Details (http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20060216005544data_trunc_sys.shtml)
Regards all,
Oazaki, being Goetic/Antarean...
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4946/dnanebulabasiccc5.jpg
It is intended to demonstrate the Hermetic Alchemical Principle of 'As above, so below' and also the principle of 'As within, so without'. Also, I think it fairly indisputably demonstrates the connection of DNA with space, and the motion of space, and so of Time (which is the motion of space). Or at least, for the more traditionally scientific minded amongst you, it pictorially represents the DNA process and parameters on a rather huge canvas... for presumably no higher purpose than to give us all a pretty light show through our telescopes (which would be a very possible hypothesis in this if God was a charming woman, like Venus, for example...)
In infrared the DNA nebula can be seen a bit more clearly I think, and looks like this:
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1773/dnanebulairnk9.jpg
The proposed scientific explanation given for this, ie more in their terminology, is as follows:
The cosmic double helix is probably made up of clouds of ionized dust hovering around a pair of magnetic field lines, Morris (lead author of the paper: Subscription Required) said, and a wave traveling up the field lines from the center of the galaxy created the twisting double helix shape.
Morris hypothesizes that the wave traveling up the magnetic field lines and creating the double helix nebula is a disk of gas at its base, made to spin by the gravity of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. The double strands of the nebula are created by the dumbbell-like structure of the spinning disk, which concentrates the magnetic field lines in two areas, he said—otherwise, the nebula would be cylindrical.
As to its discovery by humans and some details on it:
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed an astonishing double helix shaped nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers, writing in Nature, estimate the nebula to be around 80 light years in length and situated only 300 light years away from the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
The DNA shaped nebula stunned the astronomers involved. "We see two intertwining strands wrapped around each other as in a DNA molecule," said Mark Morris, a UCLA professor of astronomy, and lead author of the report. "Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm. Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas. What we see indicates a high degree of order."
Morris believes that the magnetic field at our galaxy's center is responsible for the intriguingly shaped nebula. "We know the galactic center has a strong magnetic field that is highly ordered and that the magnetic field lines are oriented perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy," Morris explained. "If you take these magnetic field lines and twist them at their base, that sends what is called a torsional wave up the magnetic field lines. You can regard these magnetic field lines as akin to a taut rubber band. If you twist one end, the twist will travel up the rubber band," he added.
More Details (http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20060216005544data_trunc_sys.shtml)
Regards all,
Oazaki, being Goetic/Antarean...