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| Cielo in tempesta fotografato da mia figlia Gaia |
Sir Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer, who died in 2001, said to have developed a theory that the universe is expanding because new matter is created continuously. Other theories hold that matter is what it is, and the expansion is more and more rarefied, the bodies are moving away from each other constantly.
His theory was quickly overtaken, but is still remembered as a small step in the research. When
ero bambina ero affascinata da queste cose e il mio babbo me le spiegava rendendole semplici . Fred Hoyle mi piaceva molto perchè con le sue teorie eliminava alcune mie inquietudini sulla sorte dell'universo e di noi che ci viviamo . Egli scrisse almeno due romanzi che ho letto . "A come Andromeda " é più conosciuto in Italia , perchè ne ricavarono una fiction . "La nuvola nera" sarebbe stato più difficile rappresentarlo . Ve lo racconto un pò per vedere se incuriosisco anche voi , credo però che sia quasi impossibile trovare il libro . Lo è ormai anche per me , dopo la morte della mia mamma io non ho definitivamente più accesso, se non voglio andare per vie legali , neanche ai libri del mio babbo. Must be why I came to mind. It may be that the EC has some library.
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the black cloud:
The observatories of the Earth in space recorded a disturbing phenomenon: it is approaching the solar system, a large cloud of gas, which quickly settle out between our planet and the sun, darkening and changing the conditions of life. To monitor the situation are called scientists from various disciplines , astronomi , fisici, climatologi che seguano il fenomeno e predispongano un piano di emergenza . Una parte del libro è dedicata alla descrizione dei guai che la presenza della nube provoca e ai tentativi di questi studiosi di porre rimedio , e intanto leggendo ci si affeziona agli studiosi, soprattutto ad uno di loro, e si partecipa alla loro angoscia e frustrazione nel vedere il pianeta sconvolto da catastrofi , che potete ben immaginare per tutti i film successivi che si sono sbizzarriti sull'argomento. Nel libro c'è anche una piccola storia d'amore , che io ricordo molto poco. Ad un certo punto ci si accorge che la nube di gas è molto di più di quel che sembra, è un immenso essere vivente . Una creatura degli spazi interstellari che si è avvicinata al Sole per fare il pieno di energia , per mangiare, in sostanza . Gli scienziati trovano il modo di comunicare con essa , in un linguaggio matematico , del tipo di quello che già si usava per i primi computer , a base di due soli elementi : 1 e 0 . Inizia un lungo scambio con la nuvola , che racconta di sè e si stupisce della presenza di vita intelligente sul terzo pianeta di quel sistema solare , cosa che non avrebbe mai sospettato , vista l'enorme differenza fra essa e gli uomini . La nube dialoga con gli scienziati solo con una parte del suo "cervello" , una parte minima, il resto è impegnato in altre cose , come la comunicazione con altri individuals of its species, which are present in the vicinity, that is several light years away. Scientists ask her to move away from the Sun, to allow you to restore conditions suitable for life of men and animals, who are dying in large numbers, but the cloud of the impact of his presence something unimportant to the planet will resume after that you will be removed. While stationed around the Sun, scientists interact with this extraordinary being, and pose the biggest question of all. A creature with an intelligence so vast can know if God exists? If there is a creator of the universe? The answers that he cnuvola mail this problem, which is a debated issue among the members of its species, and that sometimes happens, in particular the presence of cosmic events, which can gather on this issue, which even they have responded. The black cloud continues to darken the sky of the earth and the protagonist of the story is an 'idea, to take advantage of his presence to get to information. Educate themselves in various fields of science. Prepare a machine that will serve to bring together the great minds of the cloud with the small mind of man and the scientist character, full of desire for knowledge, it is proposed as an interlocutor of the cloud. It 's a great plan to achieve that dream and is taken by a frenzy and excitement that have something sick. Meanwhile, however it happens that another individual "cloud" relatively close, was the victim of its own search for "God", which is ultimately the most important research for all these beings. The black cloud, advised by his peers, is the closest cosmic event that has involved and has determined the death and then must rapidly move away from the Sun to collect information. The scientists then hasten the data transfer operation and the protagonist of the story you submit, but he feels bad, do not bear the stress. Try several times and then understand what is the problema , lui conosce troppe cose , ha la mente piena di nozioni, che devono essere cancellate , per far posto alla conoscenza che arriva dalla nuvola, che cozza con tutta la sua cultura e lo sottopone ad una specie di riprogrammazione insopportabile. Prima di morire suggerisce di sottoporre al processo di apprendimento una persona ignorante , un giardiniere che lavora all'osservatorio , una spesie di mente vergine che funzionerà molto meglio di lui come vaso della conoscenza. La nuvola si allontanerà e lascerà agli uomini un dono di sapere inestimabile. Questo è tutto ciò che mi ricordo , oltre al fatto che il libro mi piacque moltissimo.
"La nuvola nera" mi sembrò una storia appassionante, written with skill by a brilliant scholar who had a role in the history of modern astronomy. If the rileggessi find fault, it's definitely a bit dated. I'm fond of him for introducing me, a young girl, a great human and scientific issues as the eternal questions about God and the creation of views from a perspective that seemed to me new and unconventional compared to the stories of the doctrine or things that you normally say children. A story about the search for God and many other things without going through the whole Judeo-Christian theology. It 's a great adventure as imagined by an astronomer, fairly believable and full of references to real, a bit like Contact, the film of the book of another scientist, Carl Sagan. It 's also a warning of how scientists feel superior and omniscient. And 'one of the things I have left of my father, who was an engineer, had lived two years or more in a labor camp in Germany and when he left he weighed 38 kg, or weighed so when he returned home in Italy, and worked and ate normally for a while. Now I can not ask him. After all he had seen in captivity was not a desperate man, but even if he had room for irrationality, I believe in numbers, and he liked the scientific studies, which continued to grow for pleasure. When he died I went once into his study, because I had the keys, even though I was his heir and I especially her daughter. I picked up an agenda (and seemed to steal), where he wrote with his handwriting very special a long demonstration. For some years we wondered what was in those pages and I thought that none of us at home would never have been able to figure it out. Then my oldest son is enrolled in the faculty of physics and began to write some tests. One day he came with the agenda in hand
"Mom, Grandpa showed relativity, and is much clearer demonstration of the professor!"
We had solved the mystery of the agenda. I think if he sees us will be disappointed, because the flame My daughter may have changed. He would have liked to have a physical among his descendants.
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