Theme: “Or Am I Standing Still?”

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Difficult to Say Categorically Whether the Earth Moves

...it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...

from The Discovery of Dynamics by Julian Barbour

There Is No Up and Down in Universe

There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist.

from Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller

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Human Beings Literally Lost the Ground of Their View

There are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this...

There Is No Up and Down in Universe

If you, the reader of these lines, personally use the words up and down, you, too, are as yet imprisoned in the Dark Ages. There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth; what may appear to be parallel...

Source: Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller

🎼 Song Excerpts

Suddenly Things Stand Still

When I think that I'm moving, suddenly things stand still

You’re Tellin’ Me the World Does Not Even Spin Around?

You're tellin' me the world does not even spin around? You're tryna say the car we're sittin' in don't belong to gravity?

Or Am I Standing Still?

Or am I standing still? Beneath the darkened sky - Or am I standing still? With the scenery flying by

You’re Just Standing Still

You don't mean nothing if you don't do nothing - You're just waiting at the bottom of the hill - You don't mean nothing if you don't do nothing - You're just standing still