#guy murchie

[zoeflake]

“The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs … and is … a part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.” -Guy Murchie

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Art by Susan Seddon-Boulet

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Quoting geneticists, Guy Murchie says we're all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is any further removed than your fiftieth cousin. Murchie also describes our kinship through an analysis of how deeply we share the air. With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and—owing to the wind's ceaseless circulation—over a year's time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived. Right now you may be carrying atoms that were once inside the lungs of Malcolm X, Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, and Cleopatra.

[Rob Brezsny]

[mental-mona]

If a violin string is lying on a table loose and detached from any violin, some might suppose it 'free' because it is unconstrained. But what, one should ask oneself, is it 'free' to do or be? Certainly it cannot vibrate with beautiful music in such a condition of limpness. Yet if you just fasten one end of it to the tailpiece of the violin and the other to a peg in the scroll, then tighten it to its allotted pitch, you have rendered it free to play. And you might say that spiritually the string has been liberated by being tied tightly at both ends. For this is one of the great paradoxes of the world to be seen and tested on every side: the principle of emancipation by discipline.

Guy Murchie

[meredithhunnter-blog]

Opening page from Music of the Spheres by Guy Murchie.

[harrietlane]

Opening page from Music of the Spheres by Guy Murchie.

[willigula]

A Map of the Sun by Auctore & P. Scheinero, 1635

[In The Music of the Spheres, Guy Murchie] describes the surprising lack of density in certain stars, even when those stars, nonetheless, seem structurally coherent to an outside observer. He explains, for instance, that the surface of the sun "is really a thousand times more vacuous than a candle-flame on Earth, and even the concentrated moiling gases hidden a thousand miles below it are a hundred times thinner than earthly air." In fact, other stars—such as E Aurigae I, so huge it could "contain most of our solar system, including the 5.5-billion-mile circumference of Saturn's orbit"—are often "described as 'red-hot vacuums,'" Murchie writes, "because their material, though hot, averages thousands of times thinner than earthly air and is normally invisible, so that you might fly through them for days in your insulated space ship without even realizing you were inside a star."

- from BLDGBLG

[thefutureiscrazy-blog]

from The Seven Mysteries of Life by Guy Murchie