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The Cosmic Body

Morgan Maher
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Michelle Borkin is leading a team of doctors, astronomers, and computer scientists at the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard working on a new discipline called Astronomical Medicine.

Fusing medical imaging technology with astronomy would allow astronomers to better visualize their data. "Phenomena nearly impossible to see with any conventional methods," becomes bright and dynamic, offering new insights into the nature of Universe.

The data she collects about star formation using radio telescopes looks a lot like the raw data that comes out of an MRI machine. When this data is entered into 3D Slicer (free, open source software), "you can instantly see where the dense regions are forming, where the high-energy jets are, where there are spherical winds coming out from stars."

"The Astronomical Medicine Project: Mapping New Frontiers in Astronomy and Medicine", a mini-documentary about the AstroMed project can be downloaded here.

While AstroMed is still in its infancy, one can only imagine what might emerge when technology designed to provide a better look into the body, becomes standard equipment for looking into the cosmos.

Image by Jack Heart used via Creative Commons.

Comments

Fuller understanding.

Submitted by vivifidal on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 12:30.
the body has certain symetries and hierarchies that are reflections of external space, such as binary polarization and fivefold divisions. It would be interesting to do data interface that included input from brain imaging from patient and doctor as well as astrolabe corelation. A faster interface language based on tensegrity is possible. I've started work 20 years ago based on octahedral projection of fricative dipthong combinations, *shuffles papers in absent minded professor mad wizard kindof way*, posted some details here earlier will scare up link soon. Anyway there is a method to link cognition and external space to healing intent but the vestigial complexity of language makes too much noise. Dymaxion keyboard interactive interface. Polyisomorphic senesthesial interface feeedback looping. Waveform pattern disruption attenuation by cocreative guided interaction with cosmic directionality. This is happy science. Not so far fetched as might seem. Not a bunch of mumbojumbo new age holistic bullshyte...sickness is like a knot that can be untied on a much more dramtic level than chiropractic through unknotting the bodies relation to space time by spinning in relation to fixed connections of sense, idea and space to untwist the knot in 3 dimensions. The key is linking space,sense and idea between two humans using a succinct binary construct and feedback mechanism.

interactive Hilbert Space

Submitted by vivifidal on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:18.
Stephenson gives a good description of Hilbert space under the fictional term Hemm space. Anyway the basic concept I have in mind is to heal the individual in need of healling by literally and holistically untwisting their relation to the cosmos so that their feet are once again planted firmly earthward and an awareness of the four corners of that Earth are established.

In Out & Around

Submitted by Morgan Maher on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:37.

vivifidal: "the basic concept I have in mind is to heal the individual in need of healling by literally and holistically untwisting their relation to the cosmos so that their feet are once again planted firmly earthward and an awareness of the four corners of that Earth are established."

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

But about the four corners of the Earth. Are there corners in a sphere? ;)

Especially considering Buckminster Fuller and his assertion that "Scientifically speaking, there are no directions of "up" or "down" in Universe--only the angular directions "in," "out," and "around." "

it's a spiritual reference...

Submitted by vivifidal on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:26.
pointing to a shamanic tradition that marks the movement of the Earth in reference to the heavens and usually involves driving a stick into the ground and paying attention to it for a year or several, so you are essentially correct in that its not a reference to direction but to motion and the up down is orientation in reference  to gravitational force so is also more a tensegrity reference, glad you pointed that out...what you state plays a role in why the brain scans of the individuals might reveal clues as to how to direct healing energy since I believe the stake driven into the ground of the psychic field is observed from a random location by the developing ego/psyche and the archetypes that produce consciousness cluster around it from this original arbitrary positioning...just an oddly inspired hunch, but bears much looking into by someone abit more organised than myself...