Bubbles in Space ... and a film's fast pace

When Johanna and her daughter visited, we played with dry ice, helium (balloons) and soap bubbles!

Afterwards, I played around with capturing some pics of the soap bubbles.

So ethereal and so momentary in their beauty ...

And days later, I decided to add some verse which might capture the spirit of the fleeting moment .... as shown ...

(Click to see full size, for best viewing)

A small universe of color and patterns and motion and change and symmetries and beauty and even with representations of ME and ... and then ... and then after a second or two went by ... a fast fade of the coloration ... a bleeding in a fraction of a second, and a silent 'POP!' ... and it was gone. The patterns and "information" having disappeared forever, without a trace.

Except for a single instant of time ... partially captured in the above image of the bubble and of "me" ... in a transformed state, from analog to digital.

But is perhaps "analog" always just an illusion of the mind? Might the universe which we believe is physically "real" and tangible in time and spacial dimensions be instead, at its ultimate foundation, something purely digital? ... just "information" ... ultimately, just a complex composition of (infinite?) digital elements (on/off, yes/no, 1/0, white/black, yin/yang, light/dark) ... similar to the code behind the pseudo-realities on Star Trek's Holodeck ... or as in computer programs or digital images?

But then how did this program get running in the first place?

I would believe somethings may be forever beyond human comprehension ... though that idea is frustrating for the human mind to believe; and that possibility demands more humility than is likely to be found in the natures of scientists and explorers of life and meaning ... since our drive and our passion is to know, and to understand.

Just some thoughts on a colorful soap bubble. :>)