Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Quote of the Day #37
I cannot tell you exactly, in seconds, the decimal point of Planck's constant beyond which there will be no further possible knowledge of the cosmos, because light does not exist, and accurate representation is impossible. It is the event horizon, as they say in physics, beyond which nothing makes sense and nothing at all may be discovered.
That, if there is any, is the secret of the universe. As a metaphor, I would say that at the core of every human beign and every thing there is such a fundamentally inaccessible secret. That is the vital illusion of which Nietzsche spoke, the glass wall of truth and illusion.
-- Jean Baudrillard
[from Thomas Reissman's "Return to La Paz" (2004)]
