“Why are there exceptions to every rule?”Įven before the time of Copernicus, scientists like Philolaus and Aristarchus of Samos had proposed something other than an earth-centered universe. And it all starts with one simple question.
Perhaps this is nothing more than a form of therapy for me, but I’d like to take you along on a rare inner personal journey into how I think about the biggest of all big picture issues. However, when we dive into the “why” topics of how time and space began, and even the size of the universe, I find myself struggling to even formulate good questions - even as a futurist speaker, one who dedicates my studies to futurism matters. Once I can find the “corners of the room,” I can begin to make sense out of whatever subject I’m dealing with. This notion of context has followed me throughout my life, into virtually every topic I’ve come to wrestle with as a speaker and with guests on the Futurati Podcast. He went on to explain that since domes have no corners, that from the inside they appear larger than what they really are, and from the outside, they appear smaller than the space of another house with a comparable footprint. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of the space they’re in.
A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome-shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion.
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