Award - winning astrophotographer Adam Block brings us more of his stunning images of the universe — this time of
cosmic dances through space.
The stable movement through which desire comes to rest in the beauty and harmony of
the cosmic dance turns into limitless expansion of creaturely comforts.
The result is to move in the opposite direction from religious symbolism, emptying symbols of their amplitude of meaning and power, reducing
the cosmic dance to a calibrated discussion.
All this is required if one is to participate in
the cosmic dance of life and energy in the immediate moment.
Thomas Merton wrote that «no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of
the cosmic dance which is always there.
Nevertheless,
the cosmic dance continues.
RIPPLE SIGHTING
The cosmic dance of two black holes warped spacetime as the pair spiraled inward and merged, creating gravitational waves (illustrated).
Newton's law of gravity had united the earthly physics of falling apples with
the cosmic dances of planets and stars.
The cosmic dance between these two famous adversaries once again serves a simple role, laying out the grid and delivery system for level design that explodes with imagination — discoveries and treats that make me smile like a damn fool even after all these years.