A Personal Singularity
Arthur Woods / 02-02-2017
A Personal Singularity is defined as an awareness and an approximation of the cosmic relationship of a human being vis-a-vis the Universe. This can be expressed by the number 10-50 which is the ratio between the number of atoms in ones’ body 1028 and the number of atoms in the observable Universe 1078.
I discovered these two number numbers by reading different books. I found the number 1028 in Carl Sagan’s book Cosmos (1980) in the chapter “The Lives of the Stars” on page 219 where he writes “ …the total number of atoms in your body is about 1028 ”. This is a one followed by 28 zeros.
The second number 1078 comes from the book written by Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe (2008) on page 84 where he writes “There are 1078 atoms within our observable universe (mainly hydrogen atoms, each composed of a proton and an electron)….”
Thus with these two numbers we can express the ratio of the human body to that of the universe in the following manner as the number 10-50 . Which can also be written like this:
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
or like this:
10-50
The formula for making this calculation looks like this.
In the artworks I have used this formula and substituted the number “1” with the human body. Thus, these images indicates your “personal singularity”.
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