Hubble Bubble and All That.

[jones jones]

I mentioned in a previous thread a long time ago that I was reading “Isis Unveiled” by Madame Blavatsky of The Theosophical Society. I guess many people are familiar with this book and I know that some believe it is a load of rubbish whilst others, me included, do not.

In the book she states that: “dreams are astral impressions on our physical brain.” I assume by this that she means that our “dreams” are actually a sort of movie of the astral travels or out of body experiences we have while “asleep.” Kind of like the home movies we shoot on a trip to The Grand Canyon or Hawaii, only much less boring.

Personally I am always open to new ideas and theories, new in the sense that I was unaware of them until reading the book. After all, Isis Unveiled was first published in 1877. I am a free thinker and I am prepared to consider most things possible, especially concerning our dreams because so far nobody knows what they really are.

I mean when Edwin Hubble looked up into the sky in 1919, the number of galaxies known to him was exactly ……… one, the Milky Way. Today astronomers believe that there could be up to 140 billion galaxies in the visible universe! So I’m always very sceptical when anyone says that this or that cannot be possible. After all, magic is within us all the time!

Oh and speaking of Hubble, he died of a heart attack in 1953. For reasons only known to her, Mrs Hubble refused to have a funeral for her husband and to this day nobody knows what she did with his body.

So more than half a century later, America’s greatest astronomer has no memorial except in the sky – The Hubble Space telescope.