Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Deep Time and the Cosmos

 


"As Einstein would have said, there is no preferred frame of reference. Everything in the cosmos is moving and separated by vast distances. Mostly from our frame of reference, both in time and space, stars and the like seem unchanging. This is only an illusion created by the brevity of human life compared with the life of stars and the enormous size of the Cosmos. 
Kurt, some time ago had captured an image of the Plough asterism in the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear and I decided to ask Google Gemini AI to create a stop motion video clip showing how his image of the Plough would change over 10 million years in 500,000 year increments. The AI was tasked with taking into account relative movement and the life and death of stars. I was rather impressed by the result which I assume is realistic as well as beautiful" - Joel Cairo CEO the Jodrell Plank Observatory.



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