- AstronomyPlanets, stars and galaxies, measured from Earth and from space, and the old light that carries them to us.
- Black holesRegions where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape: from theory to photographs.
- RelativityEinstein’s account of space, time and gravity, and why your phone’s map needs it to work.
- Quantum mechanicsThe physics of the very small, where energy comes in packets, outcomes are probabilities and particles can be entangled.
- MathematicsNumber, structure, proof and pattern: the language nature seems to speak, and the only knowledge that does not expire.
World 2 of 7 · Science and reality
Cosmos
The structure of reality as far as measurement can reach. Cosmos runs from the mathematics that describes it to black holes, curved spacetime and the quantum fields underneath matter.
- astronomy
- physics
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- cosmology
- spacetime
- quantum mechanics
- fundamental reality
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- AstronomyPlanets, stars and galaxies, measured from Earth and from space, and the old light that carries them to us.
- Black holesRegions where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape: from theory to photographs.
- RelativityEinstein’s account of space, time and gravity, and why your phone’s map needs it to work.
- Quantum mechanicsThe physics of the very small, where energy comes in packets, outcomes are probabilities and particles can be entangled.
- MathematicsNumber, structure, proof and pattern: the language nature seems to speak, and the only knowledge that does not expire.
Symbolic correspondences
Interpretation Older traditions mapped the cosmos through planets, metals, chakras and the Tree of Life. These pairings are this site’s own map; what each one means comes from its tradition, not from science.
Hermetic principle
Correspondence
“As above, so below; as below, so above.”
Echoing the Emerald Tablet: the same patterns recur at different scales. Physics keeps finding that this is sometimes true and sometimes not.
Planet · metal
Saturn · Lead
The slowest planet visible to the eye became the ruler of time, limits and structure. Its metal is heavy lead.
Chakra · between the brows
Third eye Ajna
The two-petalled lotus of insight: seeing the pattern behind the appearances.
Tarot · Tree of Life
The World · Binah
The Golden Dawn gave Saturn to the World card and to Binah, “Understanding”, the sphere that gives form.
Sacred geometry
Metatron’s cube
Thirteen circles joined by straight lines; within it you can trace the outlines of the five Platonic solids.
Science 1915
Einstein, general relativity
Gravity as the curvature of spacetime. A century later, LIGO heard spacetime ripple.