New Age 1987
Hag re worked this from a rough he made in 1977 for what then became The Tree in Islington (see below). New Age was created for an Athena International poster who titled it ‘Ocean of Life’. Hag had changed the sky and sat the tree on the cloud.
This is rather ironic as it could be interpreted now (2026) as the ‘Ocean of Death’. All plants evolved using the high carbon levels in the atmosphere as energy to grow their amazing structures while breathing out oxygen creating an atmosphere suitable for life to evolve. All this carbon we are merrily pumping back into the atmosphere for the last 200 years is from the trees etc we are burning to stay warm and first drive our steam engines then cars and industry keeping us comfortable to have our wars, create wealth and inhabit all environments. Before the time vegetation fed itself carbon the planet was too hot to support us mammals. When these trees were laid down in the fossil records we did not exist. The new age is clearly arriving as predicted since it was first postulated in the late 19th century, proven in the 1920’s and the fossil fuel industries knew about it in the 1950’s. Adding to the exceedingly low carbon content of the atmosphere of pre-industrial concentration of about 280 parts per million (ppm) (or 0.028%) to over 425 ppm (or 0.0425%) today, representing an increase of more than 50%. [1, 2] will create a toxic atmosphere once again too hot for us mortal oxygen dependant creatures if we continue as we are. The trees and the rest will have their revenge.
99% of all living creatures which have ever lived on this planet are now extinct. We humans are the young upstarts and the next in line for this eternal process. Does intelligent [discuss] self consciousness always destroy itself?
Ocean of Death 2026 (see above)
Hag originally made ‘New Age’ as an early rough in the process of creating ‘Tree in Islington‘, (see below) commissioned by Pink Floyd in 1978 as a mural for their Britania Road recording studio in Islington London UK. It is of course from the same photographic shoot of the tree as ‘New Age’ though a different negative. The idea was discarded for the mural as not being strong enough, too decorative, for that commission.
From Hags book ‘How Things Are’
‘Current scientific thinking to determine the mass and structure of the universe has had to invent dark matter to make the sums work. The discrepancy was first noticed in 1933, but nobody took much notice until the 1970s when it was realised that we needed this hidden mass to explain many of our observations. It is supposedly 90% to 99% of the mass of the universe! We do not have the necessary perception to detect it, (or we just have not found it), but we do have the imagination to invent it, so our scientific reality remains intact. This is matter that does not obey any of the known scientific forces. It does not reflect light or any other form of electromagnetic radiation, we don’t know where it is but we need it to be there.
Many major scientific ideas, no matter how bizarre they appeared at the time, have been proved correct. When Einstein realised that there was a huge amount of energy contained within mass, this answered an ancient puzzle as to how the Sun could shine for so many years without burning out and led to a truer understanding of the age of the solar system. The expression of that energy – the Sun – was always there, sitting in the sky, illuminating us, and creating us – we are just stardust. Dark matter, if it is found to exist, will it be obvious. It’s staring us in the face right now.’ (2006)
Below a more recent consideration of this Dark Matter question…
Law of conservation of (e)nergy…..States
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed,
it can only be changed from one form to another.”
(so many unhelpful thoughts then occur)
This is an indisputable truth of physics (we all accept)?
Thus this is the dimension within which we live.
We don’t live in 3D 4D etc we live in eD
(all Eds rejoice)
All the dimensions we describe are inadequate.
They are only the ones we are aware of.
If energy can neither be created nor destroyed,
it must reflect the limits of our perceptions,
it can only be the limits of our knowledge,
it is the limit of our selves.
Dark energy, dark matter or whatever it is called now cannot be detected as energy itself has not been defined except as a constant and its various expressions.
(Author unknown but thank you)
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